To anyone wanting to ask me questions, I'll try to answer with the first thing that comes to mind but I might take a while to reply to your question.

Just note though, I'm not that into politics, my knowledge of science is limited to what I learnt in high school (which may not be much, given the difference in syllabus) and my knowledge of computers (coding etc) is limited to hoping that turning it off then on again fixes a problem ( )

And btw: FIRST! (always wanted to do that)

EDIT: I'm okay with anyone asking more than five questions

Edited by ramz91, 16 September 2015 - 12:45 AM.

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Congratulations on reading this sentence that serves no other purpose besides distraction and by the way, you've just lost the game.

Also, Gowther is the Lust of my Life and Redline sucks ball bearings

SpoilerTo find out why I had to add the second line to my sig, check link in the spoiler

- To me this songs says that everyone needs love, even those who are care free and get their desires:

"There goes easy, easy rider, riding down the highway of desire. He says the free wind takes him higher, trying to find his heaven above but is dying to be loved"

-Easy rider to me represents the carefree person and he gets his desires fulfilled by travelling the open road. The cliche feeling of the wind blowing in his hair perhaps. Searching for his heaven could represent a never-ending road yet despite all this, he is 'dying to be loved' perhaps a soul-mate that will travel with him for the rest of his life

-Seems to me that this song fills in the story for another one of his song 'Lullaby for the Summer' (Valleys of Neptune), both share the same riffs (Is that the correct term for it?)

-It makes me wonder what his music would have been like if he was still alive today, perhaps a fusion between guitar and Carnatic music

Spoiler2)Neil Gaiman's American Gods (Don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I got this book as I recognised the author, having read his comic book before hand; Marvel 1602

-I figuratively shot myself in the foot by reading the synopsis on Wikipedia before completing the book, regretted it big time.

-Made me realise that Gods themselves like humans themselves, all wanting to survive yet not willing to move on, especially true with the 'New Gods'., created and forgotten about in a relatively shorter time as compared to the 'Old Gods'.

-Oddly enough, his style reminds me of another famous author, Stephen King, both deal with the abstract but in different manners. Neil Gaiman according to this book deals with Gods while Stephen King deals with more horror elements.

Spoiler3)Arabian Nights (the book) (Again don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I personally enjoy reading this book for the stories within the story. Perhaps so much so that I don't want it to end. That could be why I put it on hold.

-This book to me highlighted just what a woman is capable of, much good and bad as well and that no heterosexual male is able to resist her.

-As examples:
->King Shahryar's wife, the cause of her husband keeping a woman for only a night after which he has her beheaded.

->The lady that the jinnee kept locked up under 7 padlocks of steel and under water as well. Despite which, she has managed to have 570+ men pleasure under the jinnee's nose.

->Scheherazade. Not only did she manage to save the lives of countless woman, she has also managed to quell a man's want for her by telling a story to him every night, some dragging for multiple nights.

-It made me wonder what would have happen to Scheherazade once she had no more stories to tell, would King Shahryar have spared her life as long as she stayed loyal to him or would he have killed her come the next morning and if he allowed her to life, would she have stayed loyal to him.

Spoiler4) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Stardust Crusaders (Anime)

- I'm beyond delighted that finally this series is animated, long overdue

-If there is one thing that bugs me about this series (it is extremely minor) is that I keep hearing Antfish's jokes every time I watch an episode but it doesn't detract from the anime.

- Makes me wonder if there will be a remake of Fist of the North Star, possibly covering the adventures of Kenshiro and Raoh's son and beyond

The first time I've been shipped with someone...and it's a dude. In the words of Johnny Bravo, 'I'm sickened but curious'

Spoiler6)An admin playing a forum game

^ It's 6:20

> I'm here because I got a notification that I got @mentioned in a post.

V Why do you play this game?

I'm at a lost to what to say

Spoiler7)The Most Effort I Put Into A Post

Ladies, what we have before you is genuine proof that our new product, the selfie-steroid or as I like to call it the 'self-roid'* works. Ever had that moment where you just want to take selfie but local thugs keep bothering you? Have no fear for with self-roid those thugs are nothing but fodder, no more harassment only kick-ass-amusement or as I like to call it, 'kick-ass-sement'. Order now we'll even throw in more thugs, absolutely free**

*Warning, side effects include diarrhea, diabetes and anal leakage, among others

**Caution, we at 'I'm Too Tired to Come With Up a Company Name Co Ltd' will not be held responsible for any injuries caused by the additional thugs. By purchasing the product you agree to waiver your rights to your soul, all of your properties that you own and ever own as well the right to complain

(*Insert immature laughter here over the word 'semen'*)

I blame my randomness

Spoiler8) People's opinion on Fanfiction

1. Oh god. Now I'm feeling paranoid that all I'm known for on this forum is being the girl who hates fanfiction.
Listen, fanfiction is writing with training wheels. It can be really fun to do (or so I imagine having never done it) and a wonderful way to simply start writing at all. But compared to having to create your own world, characters, themes, and ideas, it isn't really writing. And it's way to easy to get a false sense of accomplishment from the fanfiction community. I'd go on to say for the reader, that like 98% of all fanfiction is stupid drivel written by people with extreme wish-fulfillment needs so if you're reading it seriously, you should probably read something better.

1. I don't really have one? I was going to say it's not for me but I realized that RPs set in an existing fictional world is a similar analogue, so maybe it is. That said, I don't like too much involvement from the canon characters.

1. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on it one way or the other; there are some really talented writers out there that do it and as a consequence some really good stories exist but for the most part it usually isn't very good. I think the concept behind fanfiction attracts people that are fans of the source far more than it does people with legitimate writing ability and a fan without polished writing skills or inherent creativity isn't very likely to produce anything beyond a mediocre story if they can even manage that. As a result the majority of fanfiction tends towards the terrible side with a rare gem under the rubble.

1. I don't read a lot of fanfiction. I tried a couple of times, mainly Naruto related stuff, but every time I was trying one that I actually liked, it was left unfinished. So totally dropped fanfiction because of that. Also, it's never as good as the original story, from what I've seen and the characters can be caricatured, which I don't particularly like. Still… at one point in time, I liked it.

I think that fanfiction has it's merits. If someone is good enough they can make use of the already established characters, universe, powers, etc and come up with compelling stories. I've actually seen a lot of good Naruto fanfiction that to me, really illustrates how potentially great Naruto could have been, if Kishi was a better writer.

So overall I don't really have a problem with the idea of fanfiction. As with any genre of writing, I only have a problem with horribly written fanfiction...especially the ones revolving around pairings. If the stories are good, then it's all good with me

1) Depends on the quality. Some is good, some is terrible.

I don't like it. It appears to me that people are just too lazy to come up with something on their own, so they rip off other people's characters and ideas.

1. Frightening and sometimes disturbing.

It's not all THAT bad

1. Rarely good but maybe that's just my unlucky encounters. When it's good it's kinda really good though. But I don't read them often anw.

1. I like the creativity about it, the what if's, although I do agree that most of the times it comes down to wish fulfillment.

A highly personal piece of writing.

Its quality is almost invariably lower than the original, but the special intention of the fanfic writer, to write a sort of fan letter for the original author and/or their works in form of fiction is what sets it apart from other kinds of writing.

In short, it's a memoir, not of a person, but that of some written piece of work.

1. The vast majority of it is horrible, mostly because it’s a means of wish fulfilment on the writer’s part. Characterisation often suffers and there is little appreciation for the original creator’s vision. There are however some truly amazing gems out there that adequately flesh out and examine a given character, and build upon the original plot in inspired and creative ways. One of the best fanfics I’ve ever read, incidentally for Bleach, is in several ways far grander and interesting where plot and character development is concerned than anything Kubo has delivered in recent years.

1. It's cool! I don't read it anymore because it's really rare to find anything with any good quality writing wise, but when I was a teenager I read a lot of InuYasha fanfiction.

I read maybe two on my life time, and i have no interest on continuing to read it.

1. I only really bother if I know it's really, really good or really, really bad.

1) Oh boy xD I actually like quite a lot of fanfiction. IT always has to be written good and have the spirit of the original work it is fanfiction of, but as I had to find out there are actually quite a lot good fanfiction writers out there and I like a lot of their stuff ^^

I absolutly love fanfiction. Take for example Dragonball multiverse so many people joined together to make that project. Project that is still on-going. You can see the time and effort put in it and some of the chapter were so amzing they feel so real. Not all fanfictions are good but the whole concept of fanfiction is something ill always aprove.

1. Its weird, and i love it depending on what its about.

1) Back when I started to really immerse myself in this area, I actually tried to write one of my own. It was supposed to be a sequel to The Vision of Escaflowne, set 10 years later. I even made it to Part 4 but sadly, it's all lost now. Nowadays, I usually don't read it but it's still good to know that people want to expand the stories they like the most - or try to create something completely unique. Since, technically, each great author has started with writing what would be considered fan fiction

1) Alot of fan fiction to me seems to be too mary sue, focusing around the characters in non realistic ways. Hence I like Original novels with original characters and settings

1. I have no real opinion I'm not a big fan fiction guy, I wrote one for a contest here but that was only so i could try it, though I got a bit long winded with the story and the book that I based it on was so broad in themes it was a challenge but I could go anywhere with it which I liked. Fanfiction is a great thing, the better someone is at fan fiction the more I want to read their own personal works and I guess that's the challenge too, how much of the fan fiction you wrote is your own imagination and how much are you relying on the reference. Like I said, no real opinion.

1. I haven't read a lot of it, but I suppose that depends on the series it's from, the type of fan fiction, and how well it's written.

1. Generally speaking I don't like fanfiction. I don't read it and consider it a crutch for writers who lack the imagination to think of the own characters and settings. If I were an author I would find it flattering most likely but I doubt my overall opinion of it would change.

1) I haven't read much fanfiction in my life so far. However, the stories I have read are fun and it's just nice to read about your favourite characters or whatever in a different setting or something. So ya, fanfiction = good. However 50 shades of grey is terrible.

1. I mean its really not that uch different from regular fiction. just you have templates our following in terms of characters and ability's and backstory's and whatnot. but any true consumer of the arts will tell you a great author has to be versed in many different works in pursuit of a style to call their own. what better way to explore an authors style then by trying to replicate it/improve upon it?

1. It's okay I guess, I'm not really a fan but I don't have anything against it either. I think it takes a really good author to pull a fanfiction work off well but there probably aren't many out there so they're usually pretty mediocre.

1. I don't read that much, but I think it's awesome that fans are able to write down their perspective on how a story should go and such. If the original author gets to read them, they might think more about how they make their stories and might find some things that they can improve on.

1) I've never thought about it.. I don't really read it. Or well, I did when I first started reading manga when I was uhhh. idk young, started out with FMA and moved on to Naruto and I uh, read naruto fanfiction. I was young and innocent and I swear to god 80% of all of those fanfics were hardcore yaoi stuff, at least all the stuff I ended up on! I barely knew what being gay was, I was new to the internet and it just wasn't widely spoken about back then! So until I recognized to tell the fanfics apart I got my curiousity settled on that subject. But yea, this was years and years ago and I havent read fanfictions in forever so I dont really know what my opinion is cus yea, I don't know the area. But I guess it's just like fan drawings, nice way for people to dedicate something to their favourite show. I have nothing against it but it doesn't appeal to me. It did back then because I was way more in to anime/manga than I am now.

Spoiler9) The first time I ever made someone snort out their drink over the internet

1. Top 10 favorite manga? (Whether you elaborate on them is your choice) All-time favorite? If you can only read one manga for the rest of your life which would it be?

2. 5 manga you would totally recommend for everyone? (may or may not be among those in question 1)

3. Top 5 male manga characters? 5 female?

Top 5 characters of each of the Big3 you do read? (so 5 each)

4. You can choose 3 mangaka to make the greatest manga of all time, who would you choose? Who do what?

For example: 1 does art, 1 does storyline and character development, 1 is responsible for a specific task like comedy OR you can have 2 do art (1 draws characters, the other draws background, for example) and all 3 do storyline etc. It's up to you.

1. Top 10 favorite manga? (Whether you elaborate on them is your choice) All-time favorite? If you can only read one manga for the rest of your life which would it be?

2. 5 manga you would totally recommend for everyone? (may or may not be among those in question 1)

3. Top 5 male manga characters? 5 female?

Top 5 characters of each of the Big3 you do read? (so 5 each)

4. You can choose 3 mangaka to make the greatest manga of all time, who would you choose? Who do what?

For example: 1 does art, 1 does storyline and character development, 1 is responsible for a specific task like comedy OR you can have 2 do art (1 draws characters, the other draws background, for example) and all 3 do storyline etc. It's up to you.

5. Top 5 favorite abilities/powers from manga?

1. What do you usually do when you're bored and/or want to kill time?

2. Why do you like me?

3. If you had one wish, and one wish only, what would it be?

3.5. What are you willing to sacrifice for it to come true?

4. If you ever wrote a fiction story, what would it be about?

5. Internet dies forever, how are you going to handle it?

SpoilerFulmine

1. (This list is made up as I go along my list)

Fist of the North Star - It redefined my perception of 'manly' from Goku being the manliest character ever to Kenshiro being the standard by which 'manliness' is defined

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (JJBA) - Especially Part 4 onwards is from where the 'Bizarre' in JJBA really earned its place

Baki the Grappler (from Grappler Baki to Baki Dou) - The main antagonist, Yujiro Hanma made me wonder what would happen if he was put in superhero comics

Doraemon - This was the first 'anime' I watched as a kid, so getting to read the manga was a sweet trip down memory lane for me

Trigun & Trigun Maximum - I enjoyed the world and characters of Trigun and I've always felt that Gungrave was set in the future of Planet Gunsmoke

20th & 21st Century Boys - I liked the moment when 'that' person came back from the dead and not forgetting the song by T. Rex

Great Teacher Onizuka - I for one enjoyed my high school years and it did have the teachers like Onizuka, the fun kind so I guess it reminded me of my high school days

Pluto - It was a different take on Ozamu Tezuka's Astro Boy (what I felt as a more mature take on the series, never having seen/read the original series) and I liked it for that

City of Darkness - It's to me what a Hong Kong action movie would be like in comic format

Eat-Man - It was an original setting with an original protagonist

(Sorry if the reasons vary in length for each manga)

2.Eat-Man

Fist of the North Star

JJBA

City of Darkness

Jirashin

3. Male characters

Kenshiro

Jonathan Joestar

Yujiro Hanma

Boss (City of Darkness)

Onizuka Eikichi (GTO)

Female characters

Motoko Kusanagi (GitS)

Yukiji (20th Century Boys)

Kumiko Yamaguchi (Gokusen)

Integra Hellsing

Tokine Yukimura (Kekkaishi)

Big 3

Naruto

Rock Lee

Madara

Kakashi

Orochimaru

Guy

Bleach

Chad

Aizen

Orihime

Isshin

Zaraki Kenpachi

One Piece

Fisher Tiger

Whitebeard

Garp

Zoro

Enel

4. Art - Keisuke Itagaki

Plot - Tetsuo Hara and Aikihito Yoshitomi (Eat-Man)

5. Enel's Lighting fruit from One Piece

Hokuto Shinken from Fist of the North Star

The World's ability to stop time from JJBA

Yujiro Hanma's strength

Bolt Crank's ability to eat something and make it come out of my body from Eat-Man

SpoilerHooded Crow

1. Spend time on the Internet, doing 'Adult' things

2. You play the forum games as well

3. To not be intimidated easily

3.5 Time and effort

4. About an individual working in an audit firm (dreary work) but with the ability to enter any work of fiction/non-fiction he/she chooses

5. That's why I use torrents, as long as there's electricity, I can still enjoy the stuff that I've downloaded, although not reading mangas will be a pain in the behind

NOTE: I'm proofreading my post for grammar mistakes after I've posted so that's why the post where I answer the questions will be edited as I'll see the mistakes only after I've posted

Edited by ramz91, 16 September 2015 - 04:36 AM.

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Credit to the Red Opus for the awesome sig

Congratulations on reading this sentence that serves no other purpose besides distraction and by the way, you've just lost the game.

Also, Gowther is the Lust of my Life and Redline sucks ball bearings

SpoilerTo find out why I had to add the second line to my sig, check link in the spoiler

- To me this songs says that everyone needs love, even those who are care free and get their desires:

"There goes easy, easy rider, riding down the highway of desire. He says the free wind takes him higher, trying to find his heaven above but is dying to be loved"

-Easy rider to me represents the carefree person and he gets his desires fulfilled by travelling the open road. The cliche feeling of the wind blowing in his hair perhaps. Searching for his heaven could represent a never-ending road yet despite all this, he is 'dying to be loved' perhaps a soul-mate that will travel with him for the rest of his life

-Seems to me that this song fills in the story for another one of his song 'Lullaby for the Summer' (Valleys of Neptune), both share the same riffs (Is that the correct term for it?)

-It makes me wonder what his music would have been like if he was still alive today, perhaps a fusion between guitar and Carnatic music

Spoiler2)Neil Gaiman's American Gods (Don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I got this book as I recognised the author, having read his comic book before hand; Marvel 1602

-I figuratively shot myself in the foot by reading the synopsis on Wikipedia before completing the book, regretted it big time.

-Made me realise that Gods themselves like humans themselves, all wanting to survive yet not willing to move on, especially true with the 'New Gods'., created and forgotten about in a relatively shorter time as compared to the 'Old Gods'.

-Oddly enough, his style reminds me of another famous author, Stephen King, both deal with the abstract but in different manners. Neil Gaiman according to this book deals with Gods while Stephen King deals with more horror elements.

Spoiler3)Arabian Nights (the book) (Again don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I personally enjoy reading this book for the stories within the story. Perhaps so much so that I don't want it to end. That could be why I put it on hold.

-This book to me highlighted just what a woman is capable of, much good and bad as well and that no heterosexual male is able to resist her.

-As examples:
->King Shahryar's wife, the cause of her husband keeping a woman for only a night after which he has her beheaded.

->The lady that the jinnee kept locked up under 7 padlocks of steel and under water as well. Despite which, she has managed to have 570+ men pleasure under the jinnee's nose.

->Scheherazade. Not only did she manage to save the lives of countless woman, she has also managed to quell a man's want for her by telling a story to him every night, some dragging for multiple nights.

-It made me wonder what would have happen to Scheherazade once she had no more stories to tell, would King Shahryar have spared her life as long as she stayed loyal to him or would he have killed her come the next morning and if he allowed her to life, would she have stayed loyal to him.

Spoiler4) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Stardust Crusaders (Anime)

- I'm beyond delighted that finally this series is animated, long overdue

-If there is one thing that bugs me about this series (it is extremely minor) is that I keep hearing Antfish's jokes every time I watch an episode but it doesn't detract from the anime.

- Makes me wonder if there will be a remake of Fist of the North Star, possibly covering the adventures of Kenshiro and Raoh's son and beyond

The first time I've been shipped with someone...and it's a dude. In the words of Johnny Bravo, 'I'm sickened but curious'

Spoiler6)An admin playing a forum game

^ It's 6:20

> I'm here because I got a notification that I got @mentioned in a post.

V Why do you play this game?

I'm at a lost to what to say

Spoiler7)The Most Effort I Put Into A Post

Ladies, what we have before you is genuine proof that our new product, the selfie-steroid or as I like to call it the 'self-roid'* works. Ever had that moment where you just want to take selfie but local thugs keep bothering you? Have no fear for with self-roid those thugs are nothing but fodder, no more harassment only kick-ass-amusement or as I like to call it, 'kick-ass-sement'. Order now we'll even throw in more thugs, absolutely free**

*Warning, side effects include diarrhea, diabetes and anal leakage, among others

**Caution, we at 'I'm Too Tired to Come With Up a Company Name Co Ltd' will not be held responsible for any injuries caused by the additional thugs. By purchasing the product you agree to waiver your rights to your soul, all of your properties that you own and ever own as well the right to complain

(*Insert immature laughter here over the word 'semen'*)

I blame my randomness

Spoiler8) People's opinion on Fanfiction

1. Oh god. Now I'm feeling paranoid that all I'm known for on this forum is being the girl who hates fanfiction.
Listen, fanfiction is writing with training wheels. It can be really fun to do (or so I imagine having never done it) and a wonderful way to simply start writing at all. But compared to having to create your own world, characters, themes, and ideas, it isn't really writing. And it's way to easy to get a false sense of accomplishment from the fanfiction community. I'd go on to say for the reader, that like 98% of all fanfiction is stupid drivel written by people with extreme wish-fulfillment needs so if you're reading it seriously, you should probably read something better.

1. I don't really have one? I was going to say it's not for me but I realized that RPs set in an existing fictional world is a similar analogue, so maybe it is. That said, I don't like too much involvement from the canon characters.

1. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on it one way or the other; there are some really talented writers out there that do it and as a consequence some really good stories exist but for the most part it usually isn't very good. I think the concept behind fanfiction attracts people that are fans of the source far more than it does people with legitimate writing ability and a fan without polished writing skills or inherent creativity isn't very likely to produce anything beyond a mediocre story if they can even manage that. As a result the majority of fanfiction tends towards the terrible side with a rare gem under the rubble.

1. I don't read a lot of fanfiction. I tried a couple of times, mainly Naruto related stuff, but every time I was trying one that I actually liked, it was left unfinished. So totally dropped fanfiction because of that. Also, it's never as good as the original story, from what I've seen and the characters can be caricatured, which I don't particularly like. Still… at one point in time, I liked it.

I think that fanfiction has it's merits. If someone is good enough they can make use of the already established characters, universe, powers, etc and come up with compelling stories. I've actually seen a lot of good Naruto fanfiction that to me, really illustrates how potentially great Naruto could have been, if Kishi was a better writer.

So overall I don't really have a problem with the idea of fanfiction. As with any genre of writing, I only have a problem with horribly written fanfiction...especially the ones revolving around pairings. If the stories are good, then it's all good with me

1) Depends on the quality. Some is good, some is terrible.

I don't like it. It appears to me that people are just too lazy to come up with something on their own, so they rip off other people's characters and ideas.

1. Frightening and sometimes disturbing.

It's not all THAT bad

1. Rarely good but maybe that's just my unlucky encounters. When it's good it's kinda really good though. But I don't read them often anw.

1. I like the creativity about it, the what if's, although I do agree that most of the times it comes down to wish fulfillment.

A highly personal piece of writing.

Its quality is almost invariably lower than the original, but the special intention of the fanfic writer, to write a sort of fan letter for the original author and/or their works in form of fiction is what sets it apart from other kinds of writing.

In short, it's a memoir, not of a person, but that of some written piece of work.

1. The vast majority of it is horrible, mostly because it’s a means of wish fulfilment on the writer’s part. Characterisation often suffers and there is little appreciation for the original creator’s vision. There are however some truly amazing gems out there that adequately flesh out and examine a given character, and build upon the original plot in inspired and creative ways. One of the best fanfics I’ve ever read, incidentally for Bleach, is in several ways far grander and interesting where plot and character development is concerned than anything Kubo has delivered in recent years.

1. It's cool! I don't read it anymore because it's really rare to find anything with any good quality writing wise, but when I was a teenager I read a lot of InuYasha fanfiction.

I read maybe two on my life time, and i have no interest on continuing to read it.

1. I only really bother if I know it's really, really good or really, really bad.

1) Oh boy xD I actually like quite a lot of fanfiction. IT always has to be written good and have the spirit of the original work it is fanfiction of, but as I had to find out there are actually quite a lot good fanfiction writers out there and I like a lot of their stuff ^^

I absolutly love fanfiction. Take for example Dragonball multiverse so many people joined together to make that project. Project that is still on-going. You can see the time and effort put in it and some of the chapter were so amzing they feel so real. Not all fanfictions are good but the whole concept of fanfiction is something ill always aprove.

1. Its weird, and i love it depending on what its about.

1) Back when I started to really immerse myself in this area, I actually tried to write one of my own. It was supposed to be a sequel to The Vision of Escaflowne, set 10 years later. I even made it to Part 4 but sadly, it's all lost now. Nowadays, I usually don't read it but it's still good to know that people want to expand the stories they like the most - or try to create something completely unique. Since, technically, each great author has started with writing what would be considered fan fiction

1) Alot of fan fiction to me seems to be too mary sue, focusing around the characters in non realistic ways. Hence I like Original novels with original characters and settings

1. I have no real opinion I'm not a big fan fiction guy, I wrote one for a contest here but that was only so i could try it, though I got a bit long winded with the story and the book that I based it on was so broad in themes it was a challenge but I could go anywhere with it which I liked. Fanfiction is a great thing, the better someone is at fan fiction the more I want to read their own personal works and I guess that's the challenge too, how much of the fan fiction you wrote is your own imagination and how much are you relying on the reference. Like I said, no real opinion.

1. I haven't read a lot of it, but I suppose that depends on the series it's from, the type of fan fiction, and how well it's written.

1. Generally speaking I don't like fanfiction. I don't read it and consider it a crutch for writers who lack the imagination to think of the own characters and settings. If I were an author I would find it flattering most likely but I doubt my overall opinion of it would change.

1) I haven't read much fanfiction in my life so far. However, the stories I have read are fun and it's just nice to read about your favourite characters or whatever in a different setting or something. So ya, fanfiction = good. However 50 shades of grey is terrible.

1. I mean its really not that uch different from regular fiction. just you have templates our following in terms of characters and ability's and backstory's and whatnot. but any true consumer of the arts will tell you a great author has to be versed in many different works in pursuit of a style to call their own. what better way to explore an authors style then by trying to replicate it/improve upon it?

1. It's okay I guess, I'm not really a fan but I don't have anything against it either. I think it takes a really good author to pull a fanfiction work off well but there probably aren't many out there so they're usually pretty mediocre.

1. I don't read that much, but I think it's awesome that fans are able to write down their perspective on how a story should go and such. If the original author gets to read them, they might think more about how they make their stories and might find some things that they can improve on.

1) I've never thought about it.. I don't really read it. Or well, I did when I first started reading manga when I was uhhh. idk young, started out with FMA and moved on to Naruto and I uh, read naruto fanfiction. I was young and innocent and I swear to god 80% of all of those fanfics were hardcore yaoi stuff, at least all the stuff I ended up on! I barely knew what being gay was, I was new to the internet and it just wasn't widely spoken about back then! So until I recognized to tell the fanfics apart I got my curiousity settled on that subject. But yea, this was years and years ago and I havent read fanfictions in forever so I dont really know what my opinion is cus yea, I don't know the area. But I guess it's just like fan drawings, nice way for people to dedicate something to their favourite show. I have nothing against it but it doesn't appeal to me. It did back then because I was way more in to anime/manga than I am now.

Spoiler9) The first time I ever made someone snort out their drink over the internet

7. Your ideal/dream vacation? The place you want to go and who you go with, the scenery etc. stuffs like that.

8. If you rule the world and your desire is of absolute priority, what do you want to change for better (education, poverty, politics etc.)? And if you're evil, what do you want to change for worse?

9. You're thrown into a fantasy world and you have to fight to survive or maybe even to crawl on top like in an action manga or RPG. What ''role'' would you want to be, what ability(ies) would you want to have, your choice of weapon and course of action?

10. Thing(s) that annoys you the most, maybe even despise/disgust, in someone's personality or character? In men exclusively? In women? Does it matter if it's just a thought they keep to themselves or do you only care if they bring it into action?

11. Design a completely original ability that suits yourself to a t (personality, style, knowledge etc.) and tell me how you're gonna use such ability (as it is or creatively) in fighting and in daily life?

2. How much are you affected by the so-called seven sins? (greed, envy, sloth, lust, wrath, gluttony, pride)

3. How right are you usually when it comes to first impressions you have of people?

4. What kind of things can annoy you?

5. What are some of the things you really enjoy? (not necessarily doing)

6. What do you think of the whole Dressrosa arc in One Piece?

7. Which OMF members do you miss the most? (both those who never arrived here and those who stopped coming)

8. How much can you befriend someone from the internet?

6. Favorite and most hated cultures? Why?

7. Your ideal/dream vacation? The place you want to go and who you go with, the scenery etc. stuffs like that.

8. If you rule the world and your desire is of absolute priority, what do you want to change for better (education, poverty, politics etc.)? And if you're evil, what do you want to change for worse?

9. You're thrown into a fantasy world and you have to fight to survive or maybe even to crawl on top like in an action manga or RPG. What ''role'' would you want to be, what ability(ies) would you want to have, your choice of weapon and course of action?

10. Thing(s) that annoys you the most, maybe even despise/disgust, in someone's personality or character? In men exclusively? In women? Does it matter if it's just a thought they keep to themselves or do you only care if they bring it into action?

11. Design a completely original ability that suits yourself to a t (personality, style, knowledge etc.) and tell me how you're gonna use such ability (as it is or creatively) in fighting and in daily life?

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1. I like the creativity about it, the what if's, although I do agree that most of the times it comes dwon to wish fulfillment.

2. I can be quite lazy at times, so there's sloth and when I do get angry, I have broken stuff around the house so there's wrath. As for the others, not so much, perhaps a little bit of envy.

3. I usually try to keep an open mind about other people so I don't really have first impressions of other people. I look at someone and if he/she catches my eye, I just smile at them and see what happens from there

4. Whenever I struggle playing video games, traffic jams and when technology doesn't work as how I want it to

5. Music, talking to myself, procrastinating and walking

6. Out of the weeekly mangas that I read (Bleach, One Piece and Toriko), I've always felt that One Piece and Toriko stil have some ways to go before it becomes a bother to read (much like how Naruto was towards the end) so I didn't feel like it was a bother reading the Dressrosa arc.

7. Sparanda and winter55. I'm sure there are more but I would have forgotten them when I'm answering this question

8. Just like a friend whom I make in public, someone nice to talk to but never learning their real name and anything else about them

SpoilerFulmine (Round 2)

6. Favourite culture might be Malaysian (perhaps being one, I know it best). Most hated culture...perhaps one that devalues human life

7. Somewhere with snow. I come from near the equator so the closest thing to snow I've seen and touched is hail

8. To change for the better...perhaps education and politics and if I was bad, well everybody dies (me included as I rofl at the surrounding death)

9. Perhaps a rogue like character, quietly running around to crawl to the top (that answers the role and course of action part of the question). As for abilities and weapons, stealth and thieving and a small weapon with the ability to OHKO.

10. I find it annoying when people whine about something to me, especially if I'm doing something else. If you have a problem either keep it to yourself or don't whine and tell me about it. This doesn't disgust me as I always try to keep a limit to myself to the point where I'm not the talkative one in a conversation

11. The ability to go from quite and ignored to be included in chit-chat with a steady level of confidence. I'll use the quite part to keep myself out of trouble while use the included part so that I don't start talking to myself

Credit to the Red Opus for the awesome sig

Congratulations on reading this sentence that serves no other purpose besides distraction and by the way, you've just lost the game.

Also, Gowther is the Lust of my Life and Redline sucks ball bearings

SpoilerTo find out why I had to add the second line to my sig, check link in the spoiler

- To me this songs says that everyone needs love, even those who are care free and get their desires:

"There goes easy, easy rider, riding down the highway of desire. He says the free wind takes him higher, trying to find his heaven above but is dying to be loved"

-Easy rider to me represents the carefree person and he gets his desires fulfilled by travelling the open road. The cliche feeling of the wind blowing in his hair perhaps. Searching for his heaven could represent a never-ending road yet despite all this, he is 'dying to be loved' perhaps a soul-mate that will travel with him for the rest of his life

-Seems to me that this song fills in the story for another one of his song 'Lullaby for the Summer' (Valleys of Neptune), both share the same riffs (Is that the correct term for it?)

-It makes me wonder what his music would have been like if he was still alive today, perhaps a fusion between guitar and Carnatic music

Spoiler2)Neil Gaiman's American Gods (Don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I got this book as I recognised the author, having read his comic book before hand; Marvel 1602

-I figuratively shot myself in the foot by reading the synopsis on Wikipedia before completing the book, regretted it big time.

-Made me realise that Gods themselves like humans themselves, all wanting to survive yet not willing to move on, especially true with the 'New Gods'., created and forgotten about in a relatively shorter time as compared to the 'Old Gods'.

-Oddly enough, his style reminds me of another famous author, Stephen King, both deal with the abstract but in different manners. Neil Gaiman according to this book deals with Gods while Stephen King deals with more horror elements.

Spoiler3)Arabian Nights (the book) (Again don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I personally enjoy reading this book for the stories within the story. Perhaps so much so that I don't want it to end. That could be why I put it on hold.

-This book to me highlighted just what a woman is capable of, much good and bad as well and that no heterosexual male is able to resist her.

-As examples:
->King Shahryar's wife, the cause of her husband keeping a woman for only a night after which he has her beheaded.

->The lady that the jinnee kept locked up under 7 padlocks of steel and under water as well. Despite which, she has managed to have 570+ men pleasure under the jinnee's nose.

->Scheherazade. Not only did she manage to save the lives of countless woman, she has also managed to quell a man's want for her by telling a story to him every night, some dragging for multiple nights.

-It made me wonder what would have happen to Scheherazade once she had no more stories to tell, would King Shahryar have spared her life as long as she stayed loyal to him or would he have killed her come the next morning and if he allowed her to life, would she have stayed loyal to him.

Spoiler4) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Stardust Crusaders (Anime)

- I'm beyond delighted that finally this series is animated, long overdue

-If there is one thing that bugs me about this series (it is extremely minor) is that I keep hearing Antfish's jokes every time I watch an episode but it doesn't detract from the anime.

- Makes me wonder if there will be a remake of Fist of the North Star, possibly covering the adventures of Kenshiro and Raoh's son and beyond

The first time I've been shipped with someone...and it's a dude. In the words of Johnny Bravo, 'I'm sickened but curious'

Spoiler6)An admin playing a forum game

^ It's 6:20

> I'm here because I got a notification that I got @mentioned in a post.

V Why do you play this game?

I'm at a lost to what to say

Spoiler7)The Most Effort I Put Into A Post

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I blame my randomness

Spoiler8) People's opinion on Fanfiction

1. Oh god. Now I'm feeling paranoid that all I'm known for on this forum is being the girl who hates fanfiction.
Listen, fanfiction is writing with training wheels. It can be really fun to do (or so I imagine having never done it) and a wonderful way to simply start writing at all. But compared to having to create your own world, characters, themes, and ideas, it isn't really writing. And it's way to easy to get a false sense of accomplishment from the fanfiction community. I'd go on to say for the reader, that like 98% of all fanfiction is stupid drivel written by people with extreme wish-fulfillment needs so if you're reading it seriously, you should probably read something better.

1. I don't really have one? I was going to say it's not for me but I realized that RPs set in an existing fictional world is a similar analogue, so maybe it is. That said, I don't like too much involvement from the canon characters.

1. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on it one way or the other; there are some really talented writers out there that do it and as a consequence some really good stories exist but for the most part it usually isn't very good. I think the concept behind fanfiction attracts people that are fans of the source far more than it does people with legitimate writing ability and a fan without polished writing skills or inherent creativity isn't very likely to produce anything beyond a mediocre story if they can even manage that. As a result the majority of fanfiction tends towards the terrible side with a rare gem under the rubble.

1. I don't read a lot of fanfiction. I tried a couple of times, mainly Naruto related stuff, but every time I was trying one that I actually liked, it was left unfinished. So totally dropped fanfiction because of that. Also, it's never as good as the original story, from what I've seen and the characters can be caricatured, which I don't particularly like. Still… at one point in time, I liked it.

I think that fanfiction has it's merits. If someone is good enough they can make use of the already established characters, universe, powers, etc and come up with compelling stories. I've actually seen a lot of good Naruto fanfiction that to me, really illustrates how potentially great Naruto could have been, if Kishi was a better writer.

So overall I don't really have a problem with the idea of fanfiction. As with any genre of writing, I only have a problem with horribly written fanfiction...especially the ones revolving around pairings. If the stories are good, then it's all good with me

1) Depends on the quality. Some is good, some is terrible.

I don't like it. It appears to me that people are just too lazy to come up with something on their own, so they rip off other people's characters and ideas.

1. Frightening and sometimes disturbing.

It's not all THAT bad

1. Rarely good but maybe that's just my unlucky encounters. When it's good it's kinda really good though. But I don't read them often anw.

1. I like the creativity about it, the what if's, although I do agree that most of the times it comes down to wish fulfillment.

A highly personal piece of writing.

Its quality is almost invariably lower than the original, but the special intention of the fanfic writer, to write a sort of fan letter for the original author and/or their works in form of fiction is what sets it apart from other kinds of writing.

In short, it's a memoir, not of a person, but that of some written piece of work.

1. The vast majority of it is horrible, mostly because it’s a means of wish fulfilment on the writer’s part. Characterisation often suffers and there is little appreciation for the original creator’s vision. There are however some truly amazing gems out there that adequately flesh out and examine a given character, and build upon the original plot in inspired and creative ways. One of the best fanfics I’ve ever read, incidentally for Bleach, is in several ways far grander and interesting where plot and character development is concerned than anything Kubo has delivered in recent years.

1. It's cool! I don't read it anymore because it's really rare to find anything with any good quality writing wise, but when I was a teenager I read a lot of InuYasha fanfiction.

I read maybe two on my life time, and i have no interest on continuing to read it.

1. I only really bother if I know it's really, really good or really, really bad.

1) Oh boy xD I actually like quite a lot of fanfiction. IT always has to be written good and have the spirit of the original work it is fanfiction of, but as I had to find out there are actually quite a lot good fanfiction writers out there and I like a lot of their stuff ^^

I absolutly love fanfiction. Take for example Dragonball multiverse so many people joined together to make that project. Project that is still on-going. You can see the time and effort put in it and some of the chapter were so amzing they feel so real. Not all fanfictions are good but the whole concept of fanfiction is something ill always aprove.

1. Its weird, and i love it depending on what its about.

1) Back when I started to really immerse myself in this area, I actually tried to write one of my own. It was supposed to be a sequel to The Vision of Escaflowne, set 10 years later. I even made it to Part 4 but sadly, it's all lost now. Nowadays, I usually don't read it but it's still good to know that people want to expand the stories they like the most - or try to create something completely unique. Since, technically, each great author has started with writing what would be considered fan fiction

1) Alot of fan fiction to me seems to be too mary sue, focusing around the characters in non realistic ways. Hence I like Original novels with original characters and settings

1. I have no real opinion I'm not a big fan fiction guy, I wrote one for a contest here but that was only so i could try it, though I got a bit long winded with the story and the book that I based it on was so broad in themes it was a challenge but I could go anywhere with it which I liked. Fanfiction is a great thing, the better someone is at fan fiction the more I want to read their own personal works and I guess that's the challenge too, how much of the fan fiction you wrote is your own imagination and how much are you relying on the reference. Like I said, no real opinion.

1. I haven't read a lot of it, but I suppose that depends on the series it's from, the type of fan fiction, and how well it's written.

1. Generally speaking I don't like fanfiction. I don't read it and consider it a crutch for writers who lack the imagination to think of the own characters and settings. If I were an author I would find it flattering most likely but I doubt my overall opinion of it would change.

1) I haven't read much fanfiction in my life so far. However, the stories I have read are fun and it's just nice to read about your favourite characters or whatever in a different setting or something. So ya, fanfiction = good. However 50 shades of grey is terrible.

1. I mean its really not that uch different from regular fiction. just you have templates our following in terms of characters and ability's and backstory's and whatnot. but any true consumer of the arts will tell you a great author has to be versed in many different works in pursuit of a style to call their own. what better way to explore an authors style then by trying to replicate it/improve upon it?

1. It's okay I guess, I'm not really a fan but I don't have anything against it either. I think it takes a really good author to pull a fanfiction work off well but there probably aren't many out there so they're usually pretty mediocre.

1. I don't read that much, but I think it's awesome that fans are able to write down their perspective on how a story should go and such. If the original author gets to read them, they might think more about how they make their stories and might find some things that they can improve on.

1) I've never thought about it.. I don't really read it. Or well, I did when I first started reading manga when I was uhhh. idk young, started out with FMA and moved on to Naruto and I uh, read naruto fanfiction. I was young and innocent and I swear to god 80% of all of those fanfics were hardcore yaoi stuff, at least all the stuff I ended up on! I barely knew what being gay was, I was new to the internet and it just wasn't widely spoken about back then! So until I recognized to tell the fanfics apart I got my curiousity settled on that subject. But yea, this was years and years ago and I havent read fanfictions in forever so I dont really know what my opinion is cus yea, I don't know the area. But I guess it's just like fan drawings, nice way for people to dedicate something to their favourite show. I have nothing against it but it doesn't appeal to me. It did back then because I was way more in to anime/manga than I am now.

Spoiler9) The first time I ever made someone snort out their drink over the internet

4. Let's make a bet: @Velvetbrush will abandon ship and won't post here even until closing time.

If you win (i.e., she posts questions here), I'll wear a sig with the writing "Ramz91 is the undisputed King of Games Forum and I'm but a peasant in his thrall."

If I win (i.e., she didn't post at all here), you'll wear "Gowther is the Lust of my Life and Redline sucks ball bearings."

..for six straight months starting from the closing of this thread. Deal?

5. Y u no play the Mafia games?

6. Best scene(s) from any of your completed manga?

7. Best scene(s) from any of your completed comics?

8. What makes you interested in keeping your job as one of Games Forum's Guardians--those that keeps her soul alive and well; or at the very least undead and rotten, but well enough to trudge on (along with @kikyou_e , @Darthwin , @Hooded Crow , @Sun Heart, @d1r31 , @Zodiac , @Gattsu Pozu , and other unsung-yet-equally-valiant [anti-]heroes)?

9. Kenshiro vs Jonathan Joestar; who wins and how?

10. When one day I travel to KL, got any place not many people know that would be sweet to chill and air-guitar together with?

11. What's your take on bitcoin/cryptocurrency, and how much does the technology affect you in any way in the field of your trade?

12. In less than or up to 12 words, how would you describe me?

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SpoilerMusic by Gazillions

"Music is medicine, the melodies and all the contents of one's conscience and mind (expressions)." @Maiaku

"That one drug I can abuse in public." @Velvetbrush

"Music - the universe's expression of our soul" (This works for all art, actually) @RhyssaFireheart

"Something that invokes emotions/feelings and/or memories, good and/or bad.Either that or the closest thing humans will get to something bigger than us." @ramz91

Goddamn it, all the fucking biblical descriptions are taken. @Phenomiracle

"Not all music needs to be great or even serious, but with the music that is there's a problem. I think music is far better now than ever before in history, but it's obviously not that way in the mainstream. Even among music aficionados, there is a clear confusion about whether or not there actually is any music experience that can rise above a truly basic song. Music theorists know this to be the case, but frankly too many of them are old and out of touch with the only way of finding the largest collection of progressive music which is by illegally torrenting them (or spending millions of dollars I guess). Why should this lack of musical progression seem so prevalent if whether or not the best is played the average progresses higher and higher? It's obvious why pop hits are what radio spends most of its time on, but even if it made an effort to play the best experimental songs they could find it would not make a big difference as I think it's the way that music is listened to that's to blame. The idea of an eargasmic sound or perfectly sung sentence should be as self evidently ridiculous as the best line of a book, although there are obviously key moments that trump all others there is no sound imaginable that listened to by itself for 2 seconds would please anyone just as there is no sentence in a book that by itself would be anyone's favorite book. It's the context of the sound and meaning of the words in a story that matter. We're extremely lucky that consumers 200 years ago had no say in how much of a Beethoven symphony they got to listen to or they surely also would've said the best 3 and a half minutes at a time missing the whole point. A classical symphony can only be appreciated in its entirety with all of its highs and dreadful, sometimes annoying lows and modern music is no different. Concerts are good for this, but they also woefully miss the peak of a musical experience. An album is pointless if it is a collection of songs that might as well be singles, but must be an entity in its own right. The time that goes into crafting and producing a progression of sounds with a perfect flow is absolutely necessary for an experience worthy to be called an artistic masterpiece. This is well understood in mainstream literature, mainstream film and needs to become understood in mainstream music, but the majority of public consciousness is so far behind in that category it is concerning how long that might take. It really saddens me." @NGEFan

"Music isdifferent things to different people." @Baka-Dynasty

"Uhhhhhhhhh. Part of an artist's soul that can captivate the hearts of others." @ilikewaffles

"I think it's a combination of different tones... creating/intensifying feelings and influencing one's mood. Above that, listening to music is a great way to "flee" from reality for a while..." @kleckermaus

"The onlylanguage understood by us all." @Scorpion2k4u

"The vocal, rhythmetic or instrumental expression of an emotion." @Hadz-x

"Music is aconglomeration of sounds and/or wordsin a pattern." @FrostyMouse

"Music is a creative and expressive form of art." @kirstenn:)

"Motivational/Inspirational mood changer." @kame d. kaze

Music is a friend that will make you experience strong emotions and help you through dark times. @Maika

"The voice of the world, filtered through your ears." @hollowhowl7

"Even in your darkest times, music can show you the light." @BadCompany

"An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions. thankyoudictionary" @DrugzRule

"Music is an art in which you can express yourself in these beautiful ways that makes it sound magical being lyrics or rhythm.. Music is another drug, it can be good and bad and so addicting, and when you find that special genre you just get hooked and stick to it until you find another genre. To me music is my life and feel good moments, they inspire me and make me feel better about myself~ " @Sun Heart

"Music is any sound that provides entertainment for the ears. Within that extremely broad category, there are more specific types of music -- those that use repetition of certain notes, that use special instruments, etc." @d1r31

hmm...oh, music is essential in my life, and if anyone likes Passenger then we'll be best friends for life. @midnightrider

Some Sounds That Give Me Them Feels, Bro @Hyouzou

"an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color." @Negative Syndicate

For me Music is sounds that make you calm when you feel agitated @burningmonkey

Peace of mind, each music is alongside a memory, sad or happy. @Koneko_Neko

"A world within worlds, expressed through auditory means, but connects the deepest." @JDG973

"A chain of sounds that stimulate the listener's emotions." @eemo23

"I'd call it "A theme park of sound". Each song is an attraction, each ride stirs different emotions and creates a new story." @Sanji

"Music is the expression of emotionthrough the use of rythmic sound." @Raiden

"Art for the ears and there are no rules." @Peleihno

"A combination of rhythms with or without vocals, which composes coherent sounds :)" @Abu Dun

"A self expression of your mood or what you are going through personally." @King Tai

Pretty much whatever I like to listen to. My favorite bands are One OK Rock and Mumford & Sons, which is a total culture clash, I know. I also love Frank Sinatra and Eurodance music. Everything else is just noise that sounds good, IMO. @Hamato_Hikari

"I don't think you can properly define music.It is a special form of art, and to give it a definition would limit it severely. All art should be free to take on whatever form it wants to, so defining any type of art is impossible." @PlagueIchigo

"An amazing human triumph." @RandomRider

"A number of sounds, weak apart but as strong as steel united" @Guardian-Angel

"Charmer of the soul. Rhythmic heartbeat andword of mankind." @Satoshi

"Inspirational, motivating, comforting, and most of all entertaining." @Yuber

"Sound made melodious and harmonious to express something." @Fulmine

Uhm I don't want to be poetic and just say it is a way to relax @Maco

"I define music as art. Depends what kind. I used to be a musician but I retired cause of other businesess, but I sing to myself also once in a while cause music is life to me! The word derives from Greek: 'art of the muses'." @Buster

"Music can embody the soul of both its creator and its listener..." @Dreamcatcher

"It sounds good, but doesn't make enough Tea T_T" @TsumugiBanter

Beautiful sounds that may potentially or hopefully evoke some sort of emotion. @Urek Mazino

Music is an art formed by the union of certain notes and rythyms(Scyentific-like answer)Music is a way to travel, to feel the world and to understand what you have even better, a way of flying away to your dreamworld without sleeping.(Flower power answer) @Madara D Dragon

"Dafuq i'm confused xD" @MooshiMooosh

Music is love. Music is life. @Tiago

"The second cousin of poetry, one of the easiest ways to express feelings..." @Winterfirefly

"a form of art and literature. It sums up hate and love." @The Machine

Lmao I'm not going to pretend I'm some intellectual on music or have some deep words for this but the best definition I can give is thatmusic is everything. It goes with everything. I can't really explain it in good words but maybe when you're playing a game and in a big battle, hey? This song goes really well to this because they're moving to the beat of the music. Or maybe you see some girl you like and you think this song corresponds to her really well, e.t.c e.t.c. That's some of the things I think about when I listen to music sometimes.Jet~ @JetPk

Music is a Universal Language that transcends cultural Boundaries.

Music is Love.

Music is Life. @Namikaze_Naruto

Only 12 words? Very well. A melodic, harmonised expression and ensuing movement of the soul’s inner subjectivity. Though to be honest Leibniz defined it better: "Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." @Episteme

I define music as mood and emotion, which are two completely different things in my opinion. @Gotrense

I would say that music is an art form, an almost-magical craft that can move people and induce emotions within them. It also works as a form of self-expression, for which you don't need words to convey your feelings. @gamria

"Something that's pleasant to the ears and takes me to another place." @KittyGoesMeowMeow

Medicine. @monstertrio

"why are you asking ? i define music as something that makes me feel the intended emotion" @Miss.J

Music - Anything that produces sound in a sequence, oh god f*** my life @SunkisS

"The logical response is: Music can be any kind of audio sensation that provokes an emotional response. The more descriptive response: Melodic, mellifluous, refreshing, relaxing, motivating, uplifting, sustaining, diverse, cathartic, atmospheric and vital." @KLGChaos

"Various sounds composed in pleasing ways." @~L~

"For me, it's purely a matter of what I like and don't like. Or just whatever mood I'm in. :shrug:" @FongShwei69

Well, I would say, music is someone's inner essence being sent to other people to understand. Ok, thats probably around 12 words, lol. But what I mean is that words do not need to be used to describe it, it's just that feeling you get as the listener, when you hear a song that you really like. Emotionaly, it touches you, that is what I mean by the essence of the person who made the song, you are feeling it. @Chizi

No music. No dream. @Chicosci

"Emotion. Andno problem." @superfranky

"Pleasant for the ears and it relaxes you." @MAX_COLA_POWER!

"Music is a booster, that pushes you through life." @Enbima

"Collective ear orgasm." @Strobacaxi

"idk to me if it has a nice beat and rhythm" @laxus pwns natsu

"A form of communication that allows one to express things nonverbally." @wingman32x

"Pleasing sequences of sounds." @Ryu

xD art made with sounds @Zeando

"Music is sound at play." @Lone_ant

the sound that defines who you are. @beck26

Structured sound that can invoke a myriad of feelings and reactions. (11words)

Or for an even simpler definition

Something you can jam to lol(6 words) @Hellion

Music will set you free!Music is like fuel for my car but then, also, for my soul@Hodja

"Not all music needs to be great or even serious, but with the music that is there's a problem. I think music is far better now than ever before in history, but it's obviously not that way in the mainstream. Even among music aficionados, there is a clear confusion about whether or not there actually is any music experience that can rise above a truly basic song. Music theorists know this to be the case, but frankly too many of them are old and out of touch with the only way of finding the largest collection of progressive music which is by illegally torrenting them (or spending millions of dollars I guess). Why should this lack of musical progression seem so prevalent if whether or not the best is played the average progresses higher and higher? It's obvious why pop hits are what radio spends most of its time on, but even if it made an effort to play the best experimental songs they could find it would not make a big difference as I think it's the way that music is listened to that's to blame. The idea of an eargasmic sound or perfectly sung sentence should be as self evidently ridiculous as the best line of a book, although there are obviously key moments that trump all others there is no sound imaginable that listened to by itself for 2 seconds would please anyone just as there is no sentence in a book that by itself would be anyone's favorite book. It's the context of the sound and meaning of the words in a story that matter. We're extremely lucky that consumers 200 years ago had no say in how much of a Beethoven symphony they got to listen to or they surely also would've said the best 3 and a half minutes at a time missing the whole point. A classical symphony can only be appreciated in its entirety with all of its highs and dreadful, sometimes annoying lows and modern music is no different. Concerts are good for this, but they also woefully miss the peak of a musical experience. An album is pointless if it is a collection of songs that might as well be singles, but must be an entity in its own right. The time that goes into crafting and producing a progression of sounds with a perfect flow is absolutely necessary for an experience worthy to be called an artistic masterpiece. This is well understood in mainstream literature, mainstream film and needs to become understood in mainstream music, but the majority of public consciousness is so far behind in that category it is concerning how long that might take. It really saddens me." @NGEFan

"Music isdifferent things to different people." @Baka-Dynasty

"Uhhhhhhhhh. Part of an artist's soul that can captivate the hearts of others." @ilikewaffles

"I think it's a combination of different tones... creating/intensifying feelings and influencing one's mood. Above that, listening to music is a great way to "flee" from reality for a while..." @kleckermaus

"The onlylanguage understood by us all." @Scorpion2k4u

"The vocal, rhythmetic or instrumental expression of an emotion." @Hadz-x

"Music is aconglomeration of sounds and/or wordsin a pattern." @FrostyMouse

"Music is a creative and expressive form of art." @kirstenn:)

"Motivational/Inspirational mood changer." @kame d. kaze

Music is a friend that will make you experience strong emotions and help you through dark times. @Maika

"The voice of the world, filtered through your ears." @hollowhowl7

"Even in your darkest times, music can show you the light." @BadCompany

"An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions. thankyoudictionary" @DrugzRule

"Music is an art in which you can express yourself in these beautiful ways that makes it sound magical being lyrics or rhythm.. Music is another drug, it can be good and bad and so addicting, and when you find that special genre you just get hooked and stick to it until you find another genre. To me music is my life and feel good moments, they inspire me and make me feel better about myself~ " @Sun Heart

"Music is any sound that provides entertainment for the ears. Within that extremely broad category, there are more specific types of music -- those that use repetition of certain notes, that use special instruments, etc." @d1r31

hmm...oh, music is essential in my life, and if anyone likes Passenger then we'll be best friends for life. @midnightrider

Some Sounds That Give Me Them Feels, Bro @Hyouzou

"an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color." @Negative Syndicate

For me Music is sounds that make you calm when you feel agitated @burningmonkey

Peace of mind, each music is alongside a memory, sad or happy. @Koneko_Neko

"A world within worlds, expressed through auditory means, but connects the deepest." @JDG973

"A chain of sounds that stimulate the listener's emotions." @eemo23

"I'd call it "A theme park of sound". Each song is an attraction, each ride stirs different emotions and creates a new story." @Sanji

"Music is the expression of emotionthrough the use of rythmic sound." @Raiden

"Art for the ears and there are no rules." @Peleihno

"A combination of rhythms with or without vocals, which composes coherent sounds :)" @Abu Dun

"A self expression of your mood or what you are going through personally." @King Tai

Pretty much whatever I like to listen to. My favorite bands are One OK Rock and Mumford & Sons, which is a total culture clash, I know. I also love Frank Sinatra and Eurodance music. Everything else is just noise that sounds good, IMO. @Hamato_Hikari

"I don't think you can properly define music.It is a special form of art, and to give it a definition would limit it severely. All art should be free to take on whatever form it wants to, so defining any type of art is impossible." @PlagueIchigo

"An amazing human triumph." @RandomRider

"A number of sounds, weak apart but as strong as steel united" @Guardian-Angel

"Charmer of the soul. Rhythmic heartbeat andword of mankind." @Satoshi

"Inspirational, motivating, comforting, and most of all entertaining." @Yuber

"Sound made melodious and harmonious to express something." @Fulmine

Uhm I don't want to be poetic and just say it is a way to relax @Maco

"I define music as art. Depends what kind. I used to be a musician but I retired cause of other businesess, but I sing to myself also once in a while cause music is life to me! The word derives from Greek: 'art of the muses'." @Buster

"Music can embody the soul of both its creator and its listener..." @Dreamcatcher

"It sounds good, but doesn't make enough Tea T_T" @TsumugiBanter

Beautiful sounds that may potentially or hopefully evoke some sort of emotion. @Urek Mazino

Music is an art formed by the union of certain notes and rythyms(Scyentific-like answer)Music is a way to travel, to feel the world and to understand what you have even better, a way of flying away to your dreamworld without sleeping.(Flower power answer) @Madara D Dragon

"Dafuq i'm confused xD" @MooshiMooosh

Music is love. Music is life. @Tiago

"The second cousin of poetry, one of the easiest ways to express feelings..." @Winterfirefly

"a form of art and literature. It sums up hate and love." @The Machine

Lmao I'm not going to pretend I'm some intellectual on music or have some deep words for this but the best definition I can give is thatmusic is everything. It goes with everything. I can't really explain it in good words but maybe when you're playing a game and in a big battle, hey? This song goes really well to this because they're moving to the beat of the music. Or maybe you see some girl you like and you think this song corresponds to her really well, e.t.c e.t.c. That's some of the things I think about when I listen to music sometimes.Jet~ @JetPk

Music is a Universal Language that transcends cultural Boundaries.

Music is Love.

Music is Life. @Namikaze_Naruto

Only 12 words? Very well. A melodic, harmonised expression and ensuing movement of the soul’s inner subjectivity. Though to be honest Leibniz defined it better: "Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." @Episteme

I define music as mood and emotion, which are two completely different things in my opinion. @Gotrense

I would say that music is an art form, an almost-magical craft that can move people and induce emotions within them. It also works as a form of self-expression, for which you don't need words to convey your feelings. @gamria

"Something that's pleasant to the ears and takes me to another place." @KittyGoesMeowMeow

Medicine. @monstertrio

"why are you asking ? i define music as something that makes me feel the intended emotion" @Miss.J

Music - Anything that produces sound in a sequence, oh god f*** my life @SunkisS

"The logical response is: Music can be any kind of audio sensation that provokes an emotional response. The more descriptive response: Melodic, mellifluous, refreshing, relaxing, motivating, uplifting, sustaining, diverse, cathartic, atmospheric and vital." @KLGChaos

"Various sounds composed in pleasing ways." @~L~

"For me, it's purely a matter of what I like and don't like. Or just whatever mood I'm in. :shrug:" @FongShwei69

Well, I would say, music is someone's inner essence being sent to other people to understand. Ok, thats probably around 12 words, lol. But what I mean is that words do not need to be used to describe it, it's just that feeling you get as the listener, when you hear a song that you really like. Emotionaly, it touches you, that is what I mean by the essence of the person who made the song, you are feeling it. @Chizi

No music. No dream. @Chicosci

"Emotion. Andno problem." @superfranky

"Pleasant for the ears and it relaxes you." @MAX_COLA_POWER!

"Music is a booster, that pushes you through life." @Enbima

"Collective ear orgasm." @Strobacaxi

"idk to me if it has a nice beat and rhythm" @laxus pwns natsu

"A form of communication that allows one to express things nonverbally." @wingman32x

"Pleasing sequences of sounds." @Ryu

xD art made with sounds @Zeando

"Music is sound at play." @Lone_ant

the sound that defines who you are. @beck26

Structured sound that can invoke a myriad of feelings and reactions. (11words)

Or for an even simpler definition

Something you can jam to lol(6 words) @Hellion

Music will set you free!Music is like fuel for my car but then, also, for my soul@Hodja

2. Who was in your ava last year (before the glow-bot from Motorcity and the Redline one) that looked like a love child of Jim Carrey and Steve Buscemi?

3. Which songs @Défectueux posted in Metappreciation Forum you found extremely titillating?

4. Let's make a bet: @Velvetbrush will abandon ship and won't post here even until closing time.

If you win (i.e., she posts questions here), I'll wear a sig with the writing "Ramz91 is the undisputed King of Games Forum and I'm but a peasant in his thrall."

If I win (i.e., she didn't post at all here), you'll wear "Gowther is the Lust of my Life and Redline sucks ball bearings."

..for six straight months starting from the closing of this thread. Deal?

5. Y u no play the Mafia games?

6. Best scene(s) from any of your completed manga?

7. Best scene(s) from any of your completed comics?

8. What makes you interested in keeping your job as one of Games Forum's Guardians--those that keeps her soul alive and well; or at the very least undead and rotten, but well enough to trudge on (along with @kikyou_e , @Darthwin , @Hooded Crow , @Sun Heart, @d1r31 , @Zodiac , @Gattsu Pozu , and other unsung-yet-equally-valiant [anti-]heroes)?

9. Kenshiro vs Jonathan Joestar; who wins and how?

10. When one day I travel to KL, got any place not many people know that would be sweet to chill and air-guitar together with?

11. What's your take on bitcoin/cryptocurrency, and how much does the technology affect you in any way in the field of your trade?

12. In less than or up to 12 words, how would you describe me?

13. What's OMF to you?

SpoilerYoWid

I have no idea what Percussive maintenance mean hon

1. Jimi Hendrix is creativity incarnate, he blew minds during his time and continues to do so. Given the fact that his work lasted until 2013 (43 years after his death) shows how much he created and the dedication he had.

SpoilerExample of Hendrix's creativity

2. It might have been Beyond the Grave from Gungrave, that's the furthest memory of what avatar I had before the Duke of Detroit and JP

3. From the previous version of the group, Coven - Coven in Charing Cross (random answer I know)

5. I'm not into the whole 'post every single day', I post what I like when I like

6. Raoh's death from Fist of the North Star, anytime Yujiro Hanma fights from Baki the Grappler and Boss vs Tornado from City of Darkness (there are more but these are the first that comes to my mind)

7. The Joker shooting Barbara Gordon in the Killing Joke, imagine that, opening the door and seeing the Joker pointing a gun at your face (again, there are more but this is the first that comes to my mind)

8. As per question 5, I post when I like to

9. Kenshiro easy, he has more and varied experiences fighting than Jonathan and Hokuto Shinken is a fighting style for the battlefield, against Hamon, that wouldn't be a fair comparison. I fight I do want to see is Kenshiro vs Akuma from Street Fighter or Yujiro Hanma

10. I'm the wrong the person to ask such a question man, I stay at home most of the time and have a gig there everyday

11. I don't know

12. A fun person who shares my taste in music and mangas

13. Another constant in my life that I try to keep as much of it as constant as possible

Défectueux and YoWid like this

Credit to the Red Opus for the awesome sig

Congratulations on reading this sentence that serves no other purpose besides distraction and by the way, you've just lost the game.

Also, Gowther is the Lust of my Life and Redline sucks ball bearings

SpoilerTo find out why I had to add the second line to my sig, check link in the spoiler

- To me this songs says that everyone needs love, even those who are care free and get their desires:

"There goes easy, easy rider, riding down the highway of desire. He says the free wind takes him higher, trying to find his heaven above but is dying to be loved"

-Easy rider to me represents the carefree person and he gets his desires fulfilled by travelling the open road. The cliche feeling of the wind blowing in his hair perhaps. Searching for his heaven could represent a never-ending road yet despite all this, he is 'dying to be loved' perhaps a soul-mate that will travel with him for the rest of his life

-Seems to me that this song fills in the story for another one of his song 'Lullaby for the Summer' (Valleys of Neptune), both share the same riffs (Is that the correct term for it?)

-It makes me wonder what his music would have been like if he was still alive today, perhaps a fusion between guitar and Carnatic music

Spoiler2)Neil Gaiman's American Gods (Don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I got this book as I recognised the author, having read his comic book before hand; Marvel 1602

-I figuratively shot myself in the foot by reading the synopsis on Wikipedia before completing the book, regretted it big time.

-Made me realise that Gods themselves like humans themselves, all wanting to survive yet not willing to move on, especially true with the 'New Gods'., created and forgotten about in a relatively shorter time as compared to the 'Old Gods'.

-Oddly enough, his style reminds me of another famous author, Stephen King, both deal with the abstract but in different manners. Neil Gaiman according to this book deals with Gods while Stephen King deals with more horror elements.

Spoiler3)Arabian Nights (the book) (Again don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I personally enjoy reading this book for the stories within the story. Perhaps so much so that I don't want it to end. That could be why I put it on hold.

-This book to me highlighted just what a woman is capable of, much good and bad as well and that no heterosexual male is able to resist her.

-As examples:
->King Shahryar's wife, the cause of her husband keeping a woman for only a night after which he has her beheaded.

->The lady that the jinnee kept locked up under 7 padlocks of steel and under water as well. Despite which, she has managed to have 570+ men pleasure under the jinnee's nose.

->Scheherazade. Not only did she manage to save the lives of countless woman, she has also managed to quell a man's want for her by telling a story to him every night, some dragging for multiple nights.

-It made me wonder what would have happen to Scheherazade once she had no more stories to tell, would King Shahryar have spared her life as long as she stayed loyal to him or would he have killed her come the next morning and if he allowed her to life, would she have stayed loyal to him.

Spoiler4) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Stardust Crusaders (Anime)

- I'm beyond delighted that finally this series is animated, long overdue

-If there is one thing that bugs me about this series (it is extremely minor) is that I keep hearing Antfish's jokes every time I watch an episode but it doesn't detract from the anime.

- Makes me wonder if there will be a remake of Fist of the North Star, possibly covering the adventures of Kenshiro and Raoh's son and beyond

The first time I've been shipped with someone...and it's a dude. In the words of Johnny Bravo, 'I'm sickened but curious'

Spoiler6)An admin playing a forum game

^ It's 6:20

> I'm here because I got a notification that I got @mentioned in a post.

V Why do you play this game?

I'm at a lost to what to say

Spoiler7)The Most Effort I Put Into A Post

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I blame my randomness

Spoiler8) People's opinion on Fanfiction

1. Oh god. Now I'm feeling paranoid that all I'm known for on this forum is being the girl who hates fanfiction.
Listen, fanfiction is writing with training wheels. It can be really fun to do (or so I imagine having never done it) and a wonderful way to simply start writing at all. But compared to having to create your own world, characters, themes, and ideas, it isn't really writing. And it's way to easy to get a false sense of accomplishment from the fanfiction community. I'd go on to say for the reader, that like 98% of all fanfiction is stupid drivel written by people with extreme wish-fulfillment needs so if you're reading it seriously, you should probably read something better.

1. I don't really have one? I was going to say it's not for me but I realized that RPs set in an existing fictional world is a similar analogue, so maybe it is. That said, I don't like too much involvement from the canon characters.

1. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on it one way or the other; there are some really talented writers out there that do it and as a consequence some really good stories exist but for the most part it usually isn't very good. I think the concept behind fanfiction attracts people that are fans of the source far more than it does people with legitimate writing ability and a fan without polished writing skills or inherent creativity isn't very likely to produce anything beyond a mediocre story if they can even manage that. As a result the majority of fanfiction tends towards the terrible side with a rare gem under the rubble.

1. I don't read a lot of fanfiction. I tried a couple of times, mainly Naruto related stuff, but every time I was trying one that I actually liked, it was left unfinished. So totally dropped fanfiction because of that. Also, it's never as good as the original story, from what I've seen and the characters can be caricatured, which I don't particularly like. Still… at one point in time, I liked it.

I think that fanfiction has it's merits. If someone is good enough they can make use of the already established characters, universe, powers, etc and come up with compelling stories. I've actually seen a lot of good Naruto fanfiction that to me, really illustrates how potentially great Naruto could have been, if Kishi was a better writer.

So overall I don't really have a problem with the idea of fanfiction. As with any genre of writing, I only have a problem with horribly written fanfiction...especially the ones revolving around pairings. If the stories are good, then it's all good with me

1) Depends on the quality. Some is good, some is terrible.

I don't like it. It appears to me that people are just too lazy to come up with something on their own, so they rip off other people's characters and ideas.

1. Frightening and sometimes disturbing.

It's not all THAT bad

1. Rarely good but maybe that's just my unlucky encounters. When it's good it's kinda really good though. But I don't read them often anw.

1. I like the creativity about it, the what if's, although I do agree that most of the times it comes down to wish fulfillment.

A highly personal piece of writing.

Its quality is almost invariably lower than the original, but the special intention of the fanfic writer, to write a sort of fan letter for the original author and/or their works in form of fiction is what sets it apart from other kinds of writing.

In short, it's a memoir, not of a person, but that of some written piece of work.

1. The vast majority of it is horrible, mostly because it’s a means of wish fulfilment on the writer’s part. Characterisation often suffers and there is little appreciation for the original creator’s vision. There are however some truly amazing gems out there that adequately flesh out and examine a given character, and build upon the original plot in inspired and creative ways. One of the best fanfics I’ve ever read, incidentally for Bleach, is in several ways far grander and interesting where plot and character development is concerned than anything Kubo has delivered in recent years.

1. It's cool! I don't read it anymore because it's really rare to find anything with any good quality writing wise, but when I was a teenager I read a lot of InuYasha fanfiction.

I read maybe two on my life time, and i have no interest on continuing to read it.

1. I only really bother if I know it's really, really good or really, really bad.

1) Oh boy xD I actually like quite a lot of fanfiction. IT always has to be written good and have the spirit of the original work it is fanfiction of, but as I had to find out there are actually quite a lot good fanfiction writers out there and I like a lot of their stuff ^^

I absolutly love fanfiction. Take for example Dragonball multiverse so many people joined together to make that project. Project that is still on-going. You can see the time and effort put in it and some of the chapter were so amzing they feel so real. Not all fanfictions are good but the whole concept of fanfiction is something ill always aprove.

1. Its weird, and i love it depending on what its about.

1) Back when I started to really immerse myself in this area, I actually tried to write one of my own. It was supposed to be a sequel to The Vision of Escaflowne, set 10 years later. I even made it to Part 4 but sadly, it's all lost now. Nowadays, I usually don't read it but it's still good to know that people want to expand the stories they like the most - or try to create something completely unique. Since, technically, each great author has started with writing what would be considered fan fiction

1) Alot of fan fiction to me seems to be too mary sue, focusing around the characters in non realistic ways. Hence I like Original novels with original characters and settings

1. I have no real opinion I'm not a big fan fiction guy, I wrote one for a contest here but that was only so i could try it, though I got a bit long winded with the story and the book that I based it on was so broad in themes it was a challenge but I could go anywhere with it which I liked. Fanfiction is a great thing, the better someone is at fan fiction the more I want to read their own personal works and I guess that's the challenge too, how much of the fan fiction you wrote is your own imagination and how much are you relying on the reference. Like I said, no real opinion.

1. I haven't read a lot of it, but I suppose that depends on the series it's from, the type of fan fiction, and how well it's written.

1. Generally speaking I don't like fanfiction. I don't read it and consider it a crutch for writers who lack the imagination to think of the own characters and settings. If I were an author I would find it flattering most likely but I doubt my overall opinion of it would change.

1) I haven't read much fanfiction in my life so far. However, the stories I have read are fun and it's just nice to read about your favourite characters or whatever in a different setting or something. So ya, fanfiction = good. However 50 shades of grey is terrible.

1. I mean its really not that uch different from regular fiction. just you have templates our following in terms of characters and ability's and backstory's and whatnot. but any true consumer of the arts will tell you a great author has to be versed in many different works in pursuit of a style to call their own. what better way to explore an authors style then by trying to replicate it/improve upon it?

1. It's okay I guess, I'm not really a fan but I don't have anything against it either. I think it takes a really good author to pull a fanfiction work off well but there probably aren't many out there so they're usually pretty mediocre.

1. I don't read that much, but I think it's awesome that fans are able to write down their perspective on how a story should go and such. If the original author gets to read them, they might think more about how they make their stories and might find some things that they can improve on.

1) I've never thought about it.. I don't really read it. Or well, I did when I first started reading manga when I was uhhh. idk young, started out with FMA and moved on to Naruto and I uh, read naruto fanfiction. I was young and innocent and I swear to god 80% of all of those fanfics were hardcore yaoi stuff, at least all the stuff I ended up on! I barely knew what being gay was, I was new to the internet and it just wasn't widely spoken about back then! So until I recognized to tell the fanfics apart I got my curiousity settled on that subject. But yea, this was years and years ago and I havent read fanfictions in forever so I dont really know what my opinion is cus yea, I don't know the area. But I guess it's just like fan drawings, nice way for people to dedicate something to their favourite show. I have nothing against it but it doesn't appeal to me. It did back then because I was way more in to anime/manga than I am now.

Spoiler9) The first time I ever made someone snort out their drink over the internet

"Not all music needs to be great or even serious, but with the music that is there's a problem. I think music is far better now than ever before in history, but it's obviously not that way in the mainstream. Even among music aficionados, there is a clear confusion about whether or not there actually is any music experience that can rise above a truly basic song. Music theorists know this to be the case, but frankly too many of them are old and out of touch with the only way of finding the largest collection of progressive music which is by illegally torrenting them (or spending millions of dollars I guess). Why should this lack of musical progression seem so prevalent if whether or not the best is played the average progresses higher and higher? It's obvious why pop hits are what radio spends most of its time on, but even if it made an effort to play the best experimental songs they could find it would not make a big difference as I think it's the way that music is listened to that's to blame. The idea of an eargasmic sound or perfectly sung sentence should be as self evidently ridiculous as the best line of a book, although there are obviously key moments that trump all others there is no sound imaginable that listened to by itself for 2 seconds would please anyone just as there is no sentence in a book that by itself would be anyone's favorite book. It's the context of the sound and meaning of the words in a story that matter. We're extremely lucky that consumers 200 years ago had no say in how much of a Beethoven symphony they got to listen to or they surely also would've said the best 3 and a half minutes at a time missing the whole point. A classical symphony can only be appreciated in its entirety with all of its highs and dreadful, sometimes annoying lows and modern music is no different. Concerts are good for this, but they also woefully miss the peak of a musical experience. An album is pointless if it is a collection of songs that might as well be singles, but must be an entity in its own right. The time that goes into crafting and producing a progression of sounds with a perfect flow is absolutely necessary for an experience worthy to be called an artistic masterpiece. This is well understood in mainstream literature, mainstream film and needs to become understood in mainstream music, but the majority of public consciousness is so far behind in that category it is concerning how long that might take. It really saddens me." @NGEFan

"Music isdifferent things to different people." @Baka-Dynasty

"Uhhhhhhhhh. Part of an artist's soul that can captivate the hearts of others." @ilikewaffles

"I think it's a combination of different tones... creating/intensifying feelings and influencing one's mood. Above that, listening to music is a great way to "flee" from reality for a while..." @kleckermaus

"The onlylanguage understood by us all." @Scorpion2k4u

"The vocal, rhythmetic or instrumental expression of an emotion." @Hadz-x

"Music is aconglomeration of sounds and/or wordsin a pattern." @FrostyMouse

"Music is a creative and expressive form of art." @kirstenn:)

"Motivational/Inspirational mood changer." @kame d. kaze

Music is a friend that will make you experience strong emotions and help you through dark times. @Maika

"The voice of the world, filtered through your ears." @hollowhowl7

"Even in your darkest times, music can show you the light." @BadCompany

"An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions. thankyoudictionary" @DrugzRule

"Music is an art in which you can express yourself in these beautiful ways that makes it sound magical being lyrics or rhythm.. Music is another drug, it can be good and bad and so addicting, and when you find that special genre you just get hooked and stick to it until you find another genre. To me music is my life and feel good moments, they inspire me and make me feel better about myself~ " @Sun Heart

"Music is any sound that provides entertainment for the ears. Within that extremely broad category, there are more specific types of music -- those that use repetition of certain notes, that use special instruments, etc." @d1r31

hmm...oh, music is essential in my life, and if anyone likes Passenger then we'll be best friends for life. @midnightrider

Some Sounds That Give Me Them Feels, Bro @Hyouzou

"an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color." @Negative Syndicate

For me Music is sounds that make you calm when you feel agitated @burningmonkey

Peace of mind, each music is alongside a memory, sad or happy. @Koneko_Neko

"A world within worlds, expressed through auditory means, but connects the deepest." @JDG973

"A chain of sounds that stimulate the listener's emotions." @eemo23

"I'd call it "A theme park of sound". Each song is an attraction, each ride stirs different emotions and creates a new story." @Sanji

"Music is the expression of emotionthrough the use of rythmic sound." @Raiden

"Art for the ears and there are no rules." @Peleihno

"A combination of rhythms with or without vocals, which composes coherent sounds :)" @Abu Dun

"A self expression of your mood or what you are going through personally." @King Tai

Pretty much whatever I like to listen to. My favorite bands are One OK Rock and Mumford & Sons, which is a total culture clash, I know. I also love Frank Sinatra and Eurodance music. Everything else is just noise that sounds good, IMO. @Hamato_Hikari

"I don't think you can properly define music.It is a special form of art, and to give it a definition would limit it severely. All art should be free to take on whatever form it wants to, so defining any type of art is impossible." @PlagueIchigo

"An amazing human triumph." @RandomRider

"A number of sounds, weak apart but as strong as steel united" @Guardian-Angel

"Charmer of the soul. Rhythmic heartbeat andword of mankind." @Satoshi

"Inspirational, motivating, comforting, and most of all entertaining." @Yuber

"Sound made melodious and harmonious to express something." @Fulmine

Uhm I don't want to be poetic and just say it is a way to relax @Maco

"I define music as art. Depends what kind. I used to be a musician but I retired cause of other businesess, but I sing to myself also once in a while cause music is life to me! The word derives from Greek: 'art of the muses'." @Buster

"Music can embody the soul of both its creator and its listener..." @Dreamcatcher

"It sounds good, but doesn't make enough Tea T_T" @TsumugiBanter

Beautiful sounds that may potentially or hopefully evoke some sort of emotion. @Urek Mazino

Music is an art formed by the union of certain notes and rythyms(Scyentific-like answer)Music is a way to travel, to feel the world and to understand what you have even better, a way of flying away to your dreamworld without sleeping.(Flower power answer) @Madara D Dragon

"Dafuq i'm confused xD" @MooshiMooosh

Music is love. Music is life. @Tiago

"The second cousin of poetry, one of the easiest ways to express feelings..." @Winterfirefly

"a form of art and literature. It sums up hate and love." @The Machine

Lmao I'm not going to pretend I'm some intellectual on music or have some deep words for this but the best definition I can give is thatmusic is everything. It goes with everything. I can't really explain it in good words but maybe when you're playing a game and in a big battle, hey? This song goes really well to this because they're moving to the beat of the music. Or maybe you see some girl you like and you think this song corresponds to her really well, e.t.c e.t.c. That's some of the things I think about when I listen to music sometimes.Jet~ @JetPk

Music is a Universal Language that transcends cultural Boundaries.

Music is Love.

Music is Life. @Namikaze_Naruto

Only 12 words? Very well. A melodic, harmonised expression and ensuing movement of the soul’s inner subjectivity. Though to be honest Leibniz defined it better: "Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." @Episteme

I define music as mood and emotion, which are two completely different things in my opinion. @Gotrense

I would say that music is an art form, an almost-magical craft that can move people and induce emotions within them. It also works as a form of self-expression, for which you don't need words to convey your feelings. @gamria

"Something that's pleasant to the ears and takes me to another place." @KittyGoesMeowMeow

Medicine. @monstertrio

"why are you asking ? i define music as something that makes me feel the intended emotion" @Miss.J

Music - Anything that produces sound in a sequence, oh god f*** my life @SunkisS

"The logical response is: Music can be any kind of audio sensation that provokes an emotional response. The more descriptive response: Melodic, mellifluous, refreshing, relaxing, motivating, uplifting, sustaining, diverse, cathartic, atmospheric and vital." @KLGChaos

"Various sounds composed in pleasing ways." @~L~

"For me, it's purely a matter of what I like and don't like. Or just whatever mood I'm in. :shrug:" @FongShwei69

Well, I would say, music is someone's inner essence being sent to other people to understand. Ok, thats probably around 12 words, lol. But what I mean is that words do not need to be used to describe it, it's just that feeling you get as the listener, when you hear a song that you really like. Emotionaly, it touches you, that is what I mean by the essence of the person who made the song, you are feeling it. @Chizi

No music. No dream. @Chicosci

"Emotion. Andno problem." @superfranky

"Pleasant for the ears and it relaxes you." @MAX_COLA_POWER!

"Music is a booster, that pushes you through life." @Enbima

"Collective ear orgasm." @Strobacaxi

"idk to me if it has a nice beat and rhythm" @laxus pwns natsu

"A form of communication that allows one to express things nonverbally." @wingman32x

"Pleasing sequences of sounds." @Ryu

xD art made with sounds @Zeando

"Music is sound at play." @Lone_ant

the sound that defines who you are. @beck26

Structured sound that can invoke a myriad of feelings and reactions. (11words)

Or for an even simpler definition

Something you can jam to lol(6 words) @Hellion

Music will set you free!Music is like fuel for my car but then, also, for my soul@Hodja

- To me this songs says that everyone needs love, even those who are care free and get their desires:

"There goes easy, easy rider, riding down the highway of desire. He says the free wind takes him higher, trying to find his heaven above but is dying to be loved"

-Easy rider to me represents the carefree person and he gets his desires fulfilled by travelling the open road. The cliche feeling of the wind blowing in his hair perhaps. Searching for his heaven could represent a never-ending road yet despite all this, he is 'dying to be loved' perhaps a soul-mate that will travel with him for the rest of his life

-Seems to me that this song fills in the story for another one of his song 'Lullaby for the Summer' (Valleys of Neptune), both share the same riffs (Is that the correct term for it?)

-It makes me wonder what his music would have been like if he was still alive today, perhaps a fusion between guitar and Carnatic music

Spoiler2)Neil Gaiman's American Gods (Don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I got this book as I recognised the author, having read his comic book before hand; Marvel 1602

-I figuratively shot myself in the foot by reading the synopsis on Wikipedia before completing the book, regretted it big time.

-Made me realise that Gods themselves like humans themselves, all wanting to survive yet not willing to move on, especially true with the 'New Gods'., created and forgotten about in a relatively shorter time as compared to the 'Old Gods'.

-Oddly enough, his style reminds me of another famous author, Stephen King, both deal with the abstract but in different manners. Neil Gaiman according to this book deals with Gods while Stephen King deals with more horror elements.

Spoiler3)Arabian Nights (the book) (Again don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I personally enjoy reading this book for the stories within the story. Perhaps so much so that I don't want it to end. That could be why I put it on hold.

-This book to me highlighted just what a woman is capable of, much good and bad as well and that no heterosexual male is able to resist her.

-As examples:
->King Shahryar's wife, the cause of her husband keeping a woman for only a night after which he has her beheaded.

->The lady that the jinnee kept locked up under 7 padlocks of steel and under water as well. Despite which, she has managed to have 570+ men pleasure under the jinnee's nose.

->Scheherazade. Not only did she manage to save the lives of countless woman, she has also managed to quell a man's want for her by telling a story to him every night, some dragging for multiple nights.

-It made me wonder what would have happen to Scheherazade once she had no more stories to tell, would King Shahryar have spared her life as long as she stayed loyal to him or would he have killed her come the next morning and if he allowed her to life, would she have stayed loyal to him.

Spoiler4) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Stardust Crusaders (Anime)

- I'm beyond delighted that finally this series is animated, long overdue

-If there is one thing that bugs me about this series (it is extremely minor) is that I keep hearing Antfish's jokes every time I watch an episode but it doesn't detract from the anime.

- Makes me wonder if there will be a remake of Fist of the North Star, possibly covering the adventures of Kenshiro and Raoh's son and beyond

The first time I've been shipped with someone...and it's a dude. In the words of Johnny Bravo, 'I'm sickened but curious'

Spoiler6)An admin playing a forum game

^ It's 6:20

> I'm here because I got a notification that I got @mentioned in a post.

V Why do you play this game?

I'm at a lost to what to say

Spoiler7)The Most Effort I Put Into A Post

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I blame my randomness

Spoiler8) People's opinion on Fanfiction

1. Oh god. Now I'm feeling paranoid that all I'm known for on this forum is being the girl who hates fanfiction.
Listen, fanfiction is writing with training wheels. It can be really fun to do (or so I imagine having never done it) and a wonderful way to simply start writing at all. But compared to having to create your own world, characters, themes, and ideas, it isn't really writing. And it's way to easy to get a false sense of accomplishment from the fanfiction community. I'd go on to say for the reader, that like 98% of all fanfiction is stupid drivel written by people with extreme wish-fulfillment needs so if you're reading it seriously, you should probably read something better.

1. I don't really have one? I was going to say it's not for me but I realized that RPs set in an existing fictional world is a similar analogue, so maybe it is. That said, I don't like too much involvement from the canon characters.

1. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on it one way or the other; there are some really talented writers out there that do it and as a consequence some really good stories exist but for the most part it usually isn't very good. I think the concept behind fanfiction attracts people that are fans of the source far more than it does people with legitimate writing ability and a fan without polished writing skills or inherent creativity isn't very likely to produce anything beyond a mediocre story if they can even manage that. As a result the majority of fanfiction tends towards the terrible side with a rare gem under the rubble.

1. I don't read a lot of fanfiction. I tried a couple of times, mainly Naruto related stuff, but every time I was trying one that I actually liked, it was left unfinished. So totally dropped fanfiction because of that. Also, it's never as good as the original story, from what I've seen and the characters can be caricatured, which I don't particularly like. Still… at one point in time, I liked it.

I think that fanfiction has it's merits. If someone is good enough they can make use of the already established characters, universe, powers, etc and come up with compelling stories. I've actually seen a lot of good Naruto fanfiction that to me, really illustrates how potentially great Naruto could have been, if Kishi was a better writer.

So overall I don't really have a problem with the idea of fanfiction. As with any genre of writing, I only have a problem with horribly written fanfiction...especially the ones revolving around pairings. If the stories are good, then it's all good with me

1) Depends on the quality. Some is good, some is terrible.

I don't like it. It appears to me that people are just too lazy to come up with something on their own, so they rip off other people's characters and ideas.

1. Frightening and sometimes disturbing.

It's not all THAT bad

1. Rarely good but maybe that's just my unlucky encounters. When it's good it's kinda really good though. But I don't read them often anw.

1. I like the creativity about it, the what if's, although I do agree that most of the times it comes down to wish fulfillment.

A highly personal piece of writing.

Its quality is almost invariably lower than the original, but the special intention of the fanfic writer, to write a sort of fan letter for the original author and/or their works in form of fiction is what sets it apart from other kinds of writing.

In short, it's a memoir, not of a person, but that of some written piece of work.

1. The vast majority of it is horrible, mostly because it’s a means of wish fulfilment on the writer’s part. Characterisation often suffers and there is little appreciation for the original creator’s vision. There are however some truly amazing gems out there that adequately flesh out and examine a given character, and build upon the original plot in inspired and creative ways. One of the best fanfics I’ve ever read, incidentally for Bleach, is in several ways far grander and interesting where plot and character development is concerned than anything Kubo has delivered in recent years.

1. It's cool! I don't read it anymore because it's really rare to find anything with any good quality writing wise, but when I was a teenager I read a lot of InuYasha fanfiction.

I read maybe two on my life time, and i have no interest on continuing to read it.

1. I only really bother if I know it's really, really good or really, really bad.

1) Oh boy xD I actually like quite a lot of fanfiction. IT always has to be written good and have the spirit of the original work it is fanfiction of, but as I had to find out there are actually quite a lot good fanfiction writers out there and I like a lot of their stuff ^^

I absolutly love fanfiction. Take for example Dragonball multiverse so many people joined together to make that project. Project that is still on-going. You can see the time and effort put in it and some of the chapter were so amzing they feel so real. Not all fanfictions are good but the whole concept of fanfiction is something ill always aprove.

1. Its weird, and i love it depending on what its about.

1) Back when I started to really immerse myself in this area, I actually tried to write one of my own. It was supposed to be a sequel to The Vision of Escaflowne, set 10 years later. I even made it to Part 4 but sadly, it's all lost now. Nowadays, I usually don't read it but it's still good to know that people want to expand the stories they like the most - or try to create something completely unique. Since, technically, each great author has started with writing what would be considered fan fiction

1) Alot of fan fiction to me seems to be too mary sue, focusing around the characters in non realistic ways. Hence I like Original novels with original characters and settings

1. I have no real opinion I'm not a big fan fiction guy, I wrote one for a contest here but that was only so i could try it, though I got a bit long winded with the story and the book that I based it on was so broad in themes it was a challenge but I could go anywhere with it which I liked. Fanfiction is a great thing, the better someone is at fan fiction the more I want to read their own personal works and I guess that's the challenge too, how much of the fan fiction you wrote is your own imagination and how much are you relying on the reference. Like I said, no real opinion.

1. I haven't read a lot of it, but I suppose that depends on the series it's from, the type of fan fiction, and how well it's written.

1. Generally speaking I don't like fanfiction. I don't read it and consider it a crutch for writers who lack the imagination to think of the own characters and settings. If I were an author I would find it flattering most likely but I doubt my overall opinion of it would change.

1) I haven't read much fanfiction in my life so far. However, the stories I have read are fun and it's just nice to read about your favourite characters or whatever in a different setting or something. So ya, fanfiction = good. However 50 shades of grey is terrible.

1. I mean its really not that uch different from regular fiction. just you have templates our following in terms of characters and ability's and backstory's and whatnot. but any true consumer of the arts will tell you a great author has to be versed in many different works in pursuit of a style to call their own. what better way to explore an authors style then by trying to replicate it/improve upon it?

1. It's okay I guess, I'm not really a fan but I don't have anything against it either. I think it takes a really good author to pull a fanfiction work off well but there probably aren't many out there so they're usually pretty mediocre.

1. I don't read that much, but I think it's awesome that fans are able to write down their perspective on how a story should go and such. If the original author gets to read them, they might think more about how they make their stories and might find some things that they can improve on.

1) I've never thought about it.. I don't really read it. Or well, I did when I first started reading manga when I was uhhh. idk young, started out with FMA and moved on to Naruto and I uh, read naruto fanfiction. I was young and innocent and I swear to god 80% of all of those fanfics were hardcore yaoi stuff, at least all the stuff I ended up on! I barely knew what being gay was, I was new to the internet and it just wasn't widely spoken about back then! So until I recognized to tell the fanfics apart I got my curiousity settled on that subject. But yea, this was years and years ago and I havent read fanfictions in forever so I dont really know what my opinion is cus yea, I don't know the area. But I guess it's just like fan drawings, nice way for people to dedicate something to their favourite show. I have nothing against it but it doesn't appeal to me. It did back then because I was way more in to anime/manga than I am now.

Spoiler9) The first time I ever made someone snort out their drink over the internet

"Not all music needs to be great or even serious, but with the music that is there's a problem. I think music is far better now than ever before in history, but it's obviously not that way in the mainstream. Even among music aficionados, there is a clear confusion about whether or not there actually is any music experience that can rise above a truly basic song. Music theorists know this to be the case, but frankly too many of them are old and out of touch with the only way of finding the largest collection of progressive music which is by illegally torrenting them (or spending millions of dollars I guess). Why should this lack of musical progression seem so prevalent if whether or not the best is played the average progresses higher and higher? It's obvious why pop hits are what radio spends most of its time on, but even if it made an effort to play the best experimental songs they could find it would not make a big difference as I think it's the way that music is listened to that's to blame. The idea of an eargasmic sound or perfectly sung sentence should be as self evidently ridiculous as the best line of a book, although there are obviously key moments that trump all others there is no sound imaginable that listened to by itself for 2 seconds would please anyone just as there is no sentence in a book that by itself would be anyone's favorite book. It's the context of the sound and meaning of the words in a story that matter. We're extremely lucky that consumers 200 years ago had no say in how much of a Beethoven symphony they got to listen to or they surely also would've said the best 3 and a half minutes at a time missing the whole point. A classical symphony can only be appreciated in its entirety with all of its highs and dreadful, sometimes annoying lows and modern music is no different. Concerts are good for this, but they also woefully miss the peak of a musical experience. An album is pointless if it is a collection of songs that might as well be singles, but must be an entity in its own right. The time that goes into crafting and producing a progression of sounds with a perfect flow is absolutely necessary for an experience worthy to be called an artistic masterpiece. This is well understood in mainstream literature, mainstream film and needs to become understood in mainstream music, but the majority of public consciousness is so far behind in that category it is concerning how long that might take. It really saddens me." @NGEFan

"Music isdifferent things to different people." @Baka-Dynasty

"Uhhhhhhhhh. Part of an artist's soul that can captivate the hearts of others." @ilikewaffles

"I think it's a combination of different tones... creating/intensifying feelings and influencing one's mood. Above that, listening to music is a great way to "flee" from reality for a while..." @kleckermaus

"The onlylanguage understood by us all." @Scorpion2k4u

"The vocal, rhythmetic or instrumental expression of an emotion." @Hadz-x

"Music is aconglomeration of sounds and/or wordsin a pattern." @FrostyMouse

"Music is a creative and expressive form of art." @kirstenn:)

"Motivational/Inspirational mood changer." @kame d. kaze

Music is a friend that will make you experience strong emotions and help you through dark times. @Maika

"The voice of the world, filtered through your ears." @hollowhowl7

"Even in your darkest times, music can show you the light." @BadCompany

"An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions. thankyoudictionary" @DrugzRule

"Music is an art in which you can express yourself in these beautiful ways that makes it sound magical being lyrics or rhythm.. Music is another drug, it can be good and bad and so addicting, and when you find that special genre you just get hooked and stick to it until you find another genre. To me music is my life and feel good moments, they inspire me and make me feel better about myself~ " @Sun Heart

"Music is any sound that provides entertainment for the ears. Within that extremely broad category, there are more specific types of music -- those that use repetition of certain notes, that use special instruments, etc." @d1r31

hmm...oh, music is essential in my life, and if anyone likes Passenger then we'll be best friends for life. @midnightrider

Some Sounds That Give Me Them Feels, Bro @Hyouzou

"an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color." @Negative Syndicate

For me Music is sounds that make you calm when you feel agitated @burningmonkey

Peace of mind, each music is alongside a memory, sad or happy. @Koneko_Neko

"A world within worlds, expressed through auditory means, but connects the deepest." @JDG973

"A chain of sounds that stimulate the listener's emotions." @eemo23

"I'd call it "A theme park of sound". Each song is an attraction, each ride stirs different emotions and creates a new story." @Sanji

"Music is the expression of emotionthrough the use of rythmic sound." @Raiden

"Art for the ears and there are no rules." @Peleihno

"A combination of rhythms with or without vocals, which composes coherent sounds :)" @Abu Dun

"A self expression of your mood or what you are going through personally." @King Tai

Pretty much whatever I like to listen to. My favorite bands are One OK Rock and Mumford & Sons, which is a total culture clash, I know. I also love Frank Sinatra and Eurodance music. Everything else is just noise that sounds good, IMO. @Hamato_Hikari

"I don't think you can properly define music.It is a special form of art, and to give it a definition would limit it severely. All art should be free to take on whatever form it wants to, so defining any type of art is impossible." @PlagueIchigo

"An amazing human triumph." @RandomRider

"A number of sounds, weak apart but as strong as steel united" @Guardian-Angel

"Charmer of the soul. Rhythmic heartbeat andword of mankind." @Satoshi

"Inspirational, motivating, comforting, and most of all entertaining." @Yuber

"Sound made melodious and harmonious to express something." @Fulmine

Uhm I don't want to be poetic and just say it is a way to relax @Maco

"I define music as art. Depends what kind. I used to be a musician but I retired cause of other businesess, but I sing to myself also once in a while cause music is life to me! The word derives from Greek: 'art of the muses'." @Buster

"Music can embody the soul of both its creator and its listener..." @Dreamcatcher

"It sounds good, but doesn't make enough Tea T_T" @TsumugiBanter

Beautiful sounds that may potentially or hopefully evoke some sort of emotion. @Urek Mazino

Music is an art formed by the union of certain notes and rythyms(Scyentific-like answer)Music is a way to travel, to feel the world and to understand what you have even better, a way of flying away to your dreamworld without sleeping.(Flower power answer) @Madara D Dragon

"Dafuq i'm confused xD" @MooshiMooosh

Music is love. Music is life. @Tiago

"The second cousin of poetry, one of the easiest ways to express feelings..." @Winterfirefly

"a form of art and literature. It sums up hate and love." @The Machine

Lmao I'm not going to pretend I'm some intellectual on music or have some deep words for this but the best definition I can give is thatmusic is everything. It goes with everything. I can't really explain it in good words but maybe when you're playing a game and in a big battle, hey? This song goes really well to this because they're moving to the beat of the music. Or maybe you see some girl you like and you think this song corresponds to her really well, e.t.c e.t.c. That's some of the things I think about when I listen to music sometimes.Jet~ @JetPk

Music is a Universal Language that transcends cultural Boundaries.

Music is Love.

Music is Life. @Namikaze_Naruto

Only 12 words? Very well. A melodic, harmonised expression and ensuing movement of the soul’s inner subjectivity. Though to be honest Leibniz defined it better: "Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." @Episteme

I define music as mood and emotion, which are two completely different things in my opinion. @Gotrense

I would say that music is an art form, an almost-magical craft that can move people and induce emotions within them. It also works as a form of self-expression, for which you don't need words to convey your feelings. @gamria

"Something that's pleasant to the ears and takes me to another place." @KittyGoesMeowMeow

Medicine. @monstertrio

"why are you asking ? i define music as something that makes me feel the intended emotion" @Miss.J

Music - Anything that produces sound in a sequence, oh god f*** my life @SunkisS

"The logical response is: Music can be any kind of audio sensation that provokes an emotional response. The more descriptive response: Melodic, mellifluous, refreshing, relaxing, motivating, uplifting, sustaining, diverse, cathartic, atmospheric and vital." @KLGChaos

"Various sounds composed in pleasing ways." @~L~

"For me, it's purely a matter of what I like and don't like. Or just whatever mood I'm in. :shrug:" @FongShwei69

Well, I would say, music is someone's inner essence being sent to other people to understand. Ok, thats probably around 12 words, lol. But what I mean is that words do not need to be used to describe it, it's just that feeling you get as the listener, when you hear a song that you really like. Emotionaly, it touches you, that is what I mean by the essence of the person who made the song, you are feeling it. @Chizi

No music. No dream. @Chicosci

"Emotion. Andno problem." @superfranky

"Pleasant for the ears and it relaxes you." @MAX_COLA_POWER!

"Music is a booster, that pushes you through life." @Enbima

"Collective ear orgasm." @Strobacaxi

"idk to me if it has a nice beat and rhythm" @laxus pwns natsu

"A form of communication that allows one to express things nonverbally." @wingman32x

"Pleasing sequences of sounds." @Ryu

xD art made with sounds @Zeando

"Music is sound at play." @Lone_ant

the sound that defines who you are. @beck26

Structured sound that can invoke a myriad of feelings and reactions. (11words)

Or for an even simpler definition

Something you can jam to lol(6 words) @Hellion

Music will set you free!Music is like fuel for my car but then, also, for my soul@Hodja

- To me this songs says that everyone needs love, even those who are care free and get their desires:

"There goes easy, easy rider, riding down the highway of desire. He says the free wind takes him higher, trying to find his heaven above but is dying to be loved"

-Easy rider to me represents the carefree person and he gets his desires fulfilled by travelling the open road. The cliche feeling of the wind blowing in his hair perhaps. Searching for his heaven could represent a never-ending road yet despite all this, he is 'dying to be loved' perhaps a soul-mate that will travel with him for the rest of his life

-Seems to me that this song fills in the story for another one of his song 'Lullaby for the Summer' (Valleys of Neptune), both share the same riffs (Is that the correct term for it?)

-It makes me wonder what his music would have been like if he was still alive today, perhaps a fusion between guitar and Carnatic music

Spoiler2)Neil Gaiman's American Gods (Don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I got this book as I recognised the author, having read his comic book before hand; Marvel 1602

-I figuratively shot myself in the foot by reading the synopsis on Wikipedia before completing the book, regretted it big time.

-Made me realise that Gods themselves like humans themselves, all wanting to survive yet not willing to move on, especially true with the 'New Gods'., created and forgotten about in a relatively shorter time as compared to the 'Old Gods'.

-Oddly enough, his style reminds me of another famous author, Stephen King, both deal with the abstract but in different manners. Neil Gaiman according to this book deals with Gods while Stephen King deals with more horror elements.

Spoiler3)Arabian Nights (the book) (Again don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I personally enjoy reading this book for the stories within the story. Perhaps so much so that I don't want it to end. That could be why I put it on hold.

-This book to me highlighted just what a woman is capable of, much good and bad as well and that no heterosexual male is able to resist her.

-As examples:
->King Shahryar's wife, the cause of her husband keeping a woman for only a night after which he has her beheaded.

->The lady that the jinnee kept locked up under 7 padlocks of steel and under water as well. Despite which, she has managed to have 570+ men pleasure under the jinnee's nose.

->Scheherazade. Not only did she manage to save the lives of countless woman, she has also managed to quell a man's want for her by telling a story to him every night, some dragging for multiple nights.

-It made me wonder what would have happen to Scheherazade once she had no more stories to tell, would King Shahryar have spared her life as long as she stayed loyal to him or would he have killed her come the next morning and if he allowed her to life, would she have stayed loyal to him.

Spoiler4) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Stardust Crusaders (Anime)

- I'm beyond delighted that finally this series is animated, long overdue

-If there is one thing that bugs me about this series (it is extremely minor) is that I keep hearing Antfish's jokes every time I watch an episode but it doesn't detract from the anime.

- Makes me wonder if there will be a remake of Fist of the North Star, possibly covering the adventures of Kenshiro and Raoh's son and beyond

The first time I've been shipped with someone...and it's a dude. In the words of Johnny Bravo, 'I'm sickened but curious'

Spoiler6)An admin playing a forum game

^ It's 6:20

> I'm here because I got a notification that I got @mentioned in a post.

V Why do you play this game?

I'm at a lost to what to say

Spoiler7)The Most Effort I Put Into A Post

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I blame my randomness

Spoiler8) People's opinion on Fanfiction

1. Oh god. Now I'm feeling paranoid that all I'm known for on this forum is being the girl who hates fanfiction.
Listen, fanfiction is writing with training wheels. It can be really fun to do (or so I imagine having never done it) and a wonderful way to simply start writing at all. But compared to having to create your own world, characters, themes, and ideas, it isn't really writing. And it's way to easy to get a false sense of accomplishment from the fanfiction community. I'd go on to say for the reader, that like 98% of all fanfiction is stupid drivel written by people with extreme wish-fulfillment needs so if you're reading it seriously, you should probably read something better.

1. I don't really have one? I was going to say it's not for me but I realized that RPs set in an existing fictional world is a similar analogue, so maybe it is. That said, I don't like too much involvement from the canon characters.

1. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on it one way or the other; there are some really talented writers out there that do it and as a consequence some really good stories exist but for the most part it usually isn't very good. I think the concept behind fanfiction attracts people that are fans of the source far more than it does people with legitimate writing ability and a fan without polished writing skills or inherent creativity isn't very likely to produce anything beyond a mediocre story if they can even manage that. As a result the majority of fanfiction tends towards the terrible side with a rare gem under the rubble.

1. I don't read a lot of fanfiction. I tried a couple of times, mainly Naruto related stuff, but every time I was trying one that I actually liked, it was left unfinished. So totally dropped fanfiction because of that. Also, it's never as good as the original story, from what I've seen and the characters can be caricatured, which I don't particularly like. Still… at one point in time, I liked it.

I think that fanfiction has it's merits. If someone is good enough they can make use of the already established characters, universe, powers, etc and come up with compelling stories. I've actually seen a lot of good Naruto fanfiction that to me, really illustrates how potentially great Naruto could have been, if Kishi was a better writer.

So overall I don't really have a problem with the idea of fanfiction. As with any genre of writing, I only have a problem with horribly written fanfiction...especially the ones revolving around pairings. If the stories are good, then it's all good with me

1) Depends on the quality. Some is good, some is terrible.

I don't like it. It appears to me that people are just too lazy to come up with something on their own, so they rip off other people's characters and ideas.

1. Frightening and sometimes disturbing.

It's not all THAT bad

1. Rarely good but maybe that's just my unlucky encounters. When it's good it's kinda really good though. But I don't read them often anw.

1. I like the creativity about it, the what if's, although I do agree that most of the times it comes down to wish fulfillment.

A highly personal piece of writing.

Its quality is almost invariably lower than the original, but the special intention of the fanfic writer, to write a sort of fan letter for the original author and/or their works in form of fiction is what sets it apart from other kinds of writing.

In short, it's a memoir, not of a person, but that of some written piece of work.

1. The vast majority of it is horrible, mostly because it’s a means of wish fulfilment on the writer’s part. Characterisation often suffers and there is little appreciation for the original creator’s vision. There are however some truly amazing gems out there that adequately flesh out and examine a given character, and build upon the original plot in inspired and creative ways. One of the best fanfics I’ve ever read, incidentally for Bleach, is in several ways far grander and interesting where plot and character development is concerned than anything Kubo has delivered in recent years.

1. It's cool! I don't read it anymore because it's really rare to find anything with any good quality writing wise, but when I was a teenager I read a lot of InuYasha fanfiction.

I read maybe two on my life time, and i have no interest on continuing to read it.

1. I only really bother if I know it's really, really good or really, really bad.

1) Oh boy xD I actually like quite a lot of fanfiction. IT always has to be written good and have the spirit of the original work it is fanfiction of, but as I had to find out there are actually quite a lot good fanfiction writers out there and I like a lot of their stuff ^^

I absolutly love fanfiction. Take for example Dragonball multiverse so many people joined together to make that project. Project that is still on-going. You can see the time and effort put in it and some of the chapter were so amzing they feel so real. Not all fanfictions are good but the whole concept of fanfiction is something ill always aprove.

1. Its weird, and i love it depending on what its about.

1) Back when I started to really immerse myself in this area, I actually tried to write one of my own. It was supposed to be a sequel to The Vision of Escaflowne, set 10 years later. I even made it to Part 4 but sadly, it's all lost now. Nowadays, I usually don't read it but it's still good to know that people want to expand the stories they like the most - or try to create something completely unique. Since, technically, each great author has started with writing what would be considered fan fiction

1) Alot of fan fiction to me seems to be too mary sue, focusing around the characters in non realistic ways. Hence I like Original novels with original characters and settings

1. I have no real opinion I'm not a big fan fiction guy, I wrote one for a contest here but that was only so i could try it, though I got a bit long winded with the story and the book that I based it on was so broad in themes it was a challenge but I could go anywhere with it which I liked. Fanfiction is a great thing, the better someone is at fan fiction the more I want to read their own personal works and I guess that's the challenge too, how much of the fan fiction you wrote is your own imagination and how much are you relying on the reference. Like I said, no real opinion.

1. I haven't read a lot of it, but I suppose that depends on the series it's from, the type of fan fiction, and how well it's written.

1. Generally speaking I don't like fanfiction. I don't read it and consider it a crutch for writers who lack the imagination to think of the own characters and settings. If I were an author I would find it flattering most likely but I doubt my overall opinion of it would change.

1) I haven't read much fanfiction in my life so far. However, the stories I have read are fun and it's just nice to read about your favourite characters or whatever in a different setting or something. So ya, fanfiction = good. However 50 shades of grey is terrible.

1. I mean its really not that uch different from regular fiction. just you have templates our following in terms of characters and ability's and backstory's and whatnot. but any true consumer of the arts will tell you a great author has to be versed in many different works in pursuit of a style to call their own. what better way to explore an authors style then by trying to replicate it/improve upon it?

1. It's okay I guess, I'm not really a fan but I don't have anything against it either. I think it takes a really good author to pull a fanfiction work off well but there probably aren't many out there so they're usually pretty mediocre.

1. I don't read that much, but I think it's awesome that fans are able to write down their perspective on how a story should go and such. If the original author gets to read them, they might think more about how they make their stories and might find some things that they can improve on.

1) I've never thought about it.. I don't really read it. Or well, I did when I first started reading manga when I was uhhh. idk young, started out with FMA and moved on to Naruto and I uh, read naruto fanfiction. I was young and innocent and I swear to god 80% of all of those fanfics were hardcore yaoi stuff, at least all the stuff I ended up on! I barely knew what being gay was, I was new to the internet and it just wasn't widely spoken about back then! So until I recognized to tell the fanfics apart I got my curiousity settled on that subject. But yea, this was years and years ago and I havent read fanfictions in forever so I dont really know what my opinion is cus yea, I don't know the area. But I guess it's just like fan drawings, nice way for people to dedicate something to their favourite show. I have nothing against it but it doesn't appeal to me. It did back then because I was way more in to anime/manga than I am now.

Spoiler9) The first time I ever made someone snort out their drink over the internet

"Not all music needs to be great or even serious, but with the music that is there's a problem. I think music is far better now than ever before in history, but it's obviously not that way in the mainstream. Even among music aficionados, there is a clear confusion about whether or not there actually is any music experience that can rise above a truly basic song. Music theorists know this to be the case, but frankly too many of them are old and out of touch with the only way of finding the largest collection of progressive music which is by illegally torrenting them (or spending millions of dollars I guess). Why should this lack of musical progression seem so prevalent if whether or not the best is played the average progresses higher and higher? It's obvious why pop hits are what radio spends most of its time on, but even if it made an effort to play the best experimental songs they could find it would not make a big difference as I think it's the way that music is listened to that's to blame. The idea of an eargasmic sound or perfectly sung sentence should be as self evidently ridiculous as the best line of a book, although there are obviously key moments that trump all others there is no sound imaginable that listened to by itself for 2 seconds would please anyone just as there is no sentence in a book that by itself would be anyone's favorite book. It's the context of the sound and meaning of the words in a story that matter. We're extremely lucky that consumers 200 years ago had no say in how much of a Beethoven symphony they got to listen to or they surely also would've said the best 3 and a half minutes at a time missing the whole point. A classical symphony can only be appreciated in its entirety with all of its highs and dreadful, sometimes annoying lows and modern music is no different. Concerts are good for this, but they also woefully miss the peak of a musical experience. An album is pointless if it is a collection of songs that might as well be singles, but must be an entity in its own right. The time that goes into crafting and producing a progression of sounds with a perfect flow is absolutely necessary for an experience worthy to be called an artistic masterpiece. This is well understood in mainstream literature, mainstream film and needs to become understood in mainstream music, but the majority of public consciousness is so far behind in that category it is concerning how long that might take. It really saddens me." @NGEFan

"Music isdifferent things to different people." @Baka-Dynasty

"Uhhhhhhhhh. Part of an artist's soul that can captivate the hearts of others." @ilikewaffles

"I think it's a combination of different tones... creating/intensifying feelings and influencing one's mood. Above that, listening to music is a great way to "flee" from reality for a while..." @kleckermaus

"The onlylanguage understood by us all." @Scorpion2k4u

"The vocal, rhythmetic or instrumental expression of an emotion." @Hadz-x

"Music is aconglomeration of sounds and/or wordsin a pattern." @FrostyMouse

"Music is a creative and expressive form of art." @kirstenn:)

"Motivational/Inspirational mood changer." @kame d. kaze

Music is a friend that will make you experience strong emotions and help you through dark times. @Maika

"The voice of the world, filtered through your ears." @hollowhowl7

"Even in your darkest times, music can show you the light." @BadCompany

"An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions. thankyoudictionary" @DrugzRule

"Music is an art in which you can express yourself in these beautiful ways that makes it sound magical being lyrics or rhythm.. Music is another drug, it can be good and bad and so addicting, and when you find that special genre you just get hooked and stick to it until you find another genre. To me music is my life and feel good moments, they inspire me and make me feel better about myself~ " @Sun Heart

"Music is any sound that provides entertainment for the ears. Within that extremely broad category, there are more specific types of music -- those that use repetition of certain notes, that use special instruments, etc." @d1r31

hmm...oh, music is essential in my life, and if anyone likes Passenger then we'll be best friends for life. @midnightrider

Some Sounds That Give Me Them Feels, Bro @Hyouzou

"an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color." @Negative Syndicate

For me Music is sounds that make you calm when you feel agitated @burningmonkey

Peace of mind, each music is alongside a memory, sad or happy. @Koneko_Neko

"A world within worlds, expressed through auditory means, but connects the deepest." @JDG973

"A chain of sounds that stimulate the listener's emotions." @eemo23

"I'd call it "A theme park of sound". Each song is an attraction, each ride stirs different emotions and creates a new story." @Sanji

"Music is the expression of emotionthrough the use of rythmic sound." @Raiden

"Art for the ears and there are no rules." @Peleihno

"A combination of rhythms with or without vocals, which composes coherent sounds :)" @Abu Dun

"A self expression of your mood or what you are going through personally." @King Tai

Pretty much whatever I like to listen to. My favorite bands are One OK Rock and Mumford & Sons, which is a total culture clash, I know. I also love Frank Sinatra and Eurodance music. Everything else is just noise that sounds good, IMO. @Hamato_Hikari

"I don't think you can properly define music.It is a special form of art, and to give it a definition would limit it severely. All art should be free to take on whatever form it wants to, so defining any type of art is impossible." @PlagueIchigo

"An amazing human triumph." @RandomRider

"A number of sounds, weak apart but as strong as steel united" @Guardian-Angel

"Charmer of the soul. Rhythmic heartbeat andword of mankind." @Satoshi

"Inspirational, motivating, comforting, and most of all entertaining." @Yuber

"Sound made melodious and harmonious to express something." @Fulmine

Uhm I don't want to be poetic and just say it is a way to relax @Maco

"I define music as art. Depends what kind. I used to be a musician but I retired cause of other businesess, but I sing to myself also once in a while cause music is life to me! The word derives from Greek: 'art of the muses'." @Buster

"Music can embody the soul of both its creator and its listener..." @Dreamcatcher

"It sounds good, but doesn't make enough Tea T_T" @TsumugiBanter

Beautiful sounds that may potentially or hopefully evoke some sort of emotion. @Urek Mazino

Music is an art formed by the union of certain notes and rythyms(Scyentific-like answer)Music is a way to travel, to feel the world and to understand what you have even better, a way of flying away to your dreamworld without sleeping.(Flower power answer) @Madara D Dragon

"Dafuq i'm confused xD" @MooshiMooosh

Music is love. Music is life. @Tiago

"The second cousin of poetry, one of the easiest ways to express feelings..." @Winterfirefly

"a form of art and literature. It sums up hate and love." @The Machine

Lmao I'm not going to pretend I'm some intellectual on music or have some deep words for this but the best definition I can give is thatmusic is everything. It goes with everything. I can't really explain it in good words but maybe when you're playing a game and in a big battle, hey? This song goes really well to this because they're moving to the beat of the music. Or maybe you see some girl you like and you think this song corresponds to her really well, e.t.c e.t.c. That's some of the things I think about when I listen to music sometimes.Jet~ @JetPk

Music is a Universal Language that transcends cultural Boundaries.

Music is Love.

Music is Life. @Namikaze_Naruto

Only 12 words? Very well. A melodic, harmonised expression and ensuing movement of the soul’s inner subjectivity. Though to be honest Leibniz defined it better: "Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." @Episteme

I define music as mood and emotion, which are two completely different things in my opinion. @Gotrense

I would say that music is an art form, an almost-magical craft that can move people and induce emotions within them. It also works as a form of self-expression, for which you don't need words to convey your feelings. @gamria

"Something that's pleasant to the ears and takes me to another place." @KittyGoesMeowMeow

Medicine. @monstertrio

"why are you asking ? i define music as something that makes me feel the intended emotion" @Miss.J

Music - Anything that produces sound in a sequence, oh god f*** my life @SunkisS

"The logical response is: Music can be any kind of audio sensation that provokes an emotional response. The more descriptive response: Melodic, mellifluous, refreshing, relaxing, motivating, uplifting, sustaining, diverse, cathartic, atmospheric and vital." @KLGChaos

"Various sounds composed in pleasing ways." @~L~

"For me, it's purely a matter of what I like and don't like. Or just whatever mood I'm in. :shrug:" @FongShwei69

Well, I would say, music is someone's inner essence being sent to other people to understand. Ok, thats probably around 12 words, lol. But what I mean is that words do not need to be used to describe it, it's just that feeling you get as the listener, when you hear a song that you really like. Emotionaly, it touches you, that is what I mean by the essence of the person who made the song, you are feeling it. @Chizi

No music. No dream. @Chicosci

"Emotion. Andno problem." @superfranky

"Pleasant for the ears and it relaxes you." @MAX_COLA_POWER!

"Music is a booster, that pushes you through life." @Enbima

"Collective ear orgasm." @Strobacaxi

"idk to me if it has a nice beat and rhythm" @laxus pwns natsu

"A form of communication that allows one to express things nonverbally." @wingman32x

"Pleasing sequences of sounds." @Ryu

xD art made with sounds @Zeando

"Music is sound at play." @Lone_ant

the sound that defines who you are. @beck26

Structured sound that can invoke a myriad of feelings and reactions. (11words)

Or for an even simpler definition

Something you can jam to lol(6 words) @Hellion

Music will set you free!Music is like fuel for my car but then, also, for my soul@Hodja

17. If that buff in no. 16 also happened to me (Hammond organ/piano/DX keyboard), @Metal Heart (lead/accoustic guitar) @Défectueux (lead vocal) @ArSoNiSt JoE (MC/DJ) @Sun Heart (drums) @Otaku-N. (bass/moog synth/theremin) thus forming the Infernal Seven on the spot, what kind of original song we gonna play do you have in mind?

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"Music is medicine, the melodies and all the contents of one's conscience and mind (expressions)." @Maiaku

"That one drug I can abuse in public." @Velvetbrush

"Music - the universe's expression of our soul" (This works for all art, actually) @RhyssaFireheart

"Something that invokes emotions/feelings and/or memories, good and/or bad.Either that or the closest thing humans will get to something bigger than us." @ramz91

Goddamn it, all the fucking biblical descriptions are taken. @Phenomiracle

"Not all music needs to be great or even serious, but with the music that is there's a problem. I think music is far better now than ever before in history, but it's obviously not that way in the mainstream. Even among music aficionados, there is a clear confusion about whether or not there actually is any music experience that can rise above a truly basic song. Music theorists know this to be the case, but frankly too many of them are old and out of touch with the only way of finding the largest collection of progressive music which is by illegally torrenting them (or spending millions of dollars I guess). Why should this lack of musical progression seem so prevalent if whether or not the best is played the average progresses higher and higher? It's obvious why pop hits are what radio spends most of its time on, but even if it made an effort to play the best experimental songs they could find it would not make a big difference as I think it's the way that music is listened to that's to blame. The idea of an eargasmic sound or perfectly sung sentence should be as self evidently ridiculous as the best line of a book, although there are obviously key moments that trump all others there is no sound imaginable that listened to by itself for 2 seconds would please anyone just as there is no sentence in a book that by itself would be anyone's favorite book. It's the context of the sound and meaning of the words in a story that matter. We're extremely lucky that consumers 200 years ago had no say in how much of a Beethoven symphony they got to listen to or they surely also would've said the best 3 and a half minutes at a time missing the whole point. A classical symphony can only be appreciated in its entirety with all of its highs and dreadful, sometimes annoying lows and modern music is no different. Concerts are good for this, but they also woefully miss the peak of a musical experience. An album is pointless if it is a collection of songs that might as well be singles, but must be an entity in its own right. The time that goes into crafting and producing a progression of sounds with a perfect flow is absolutely necessary for an experience worthy to be called an artistic masterpiece. This is well understood in mainstream literature, mainstream film and needs to become understood in mainstream music, but the majority of public consciousness is so far behind in that category it is concerning how long that might take. It really saddens me." @NGEFan

"Music isdifferent things to different people." @Baka-Dynasty

"Uhhhhhhhhh. Part of an artist's soul that can captivate the hearts of others." @ilikewaffles

"I think it's a combination of different tones... creating/intensifying feelings and influencing one's mood. Above that, listening to music is a great way to "flee" from reality for a while..." @kleckermaus

"The onlylanguage understood by us all." @Scorpion2k4u

"The vocal, rhythmetic or instrumental expression of an emotion." @Hadz-x

"Music is aconglomeration of sounds and/or wordsin a pattern." @FrostyMouse

"Music is a creative and expressive form of art." @kirstenn:)

"Motivational/Inspirational mood changer." @kame d. kaze

Music is a friend that will make you experience strong emotions and help you through dark times. @Maika

"The voice of the world, filtered through your ears." @hollowhowl7

"Even in your darkest times, music can show you the light." @BadCompany

"An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions. thankyoudictionary" @DrugzRule

"Music is an art in which you can express yourself in these beautiful ways that makes it sound magical being lyrics or rhythm.. Music is another drug, it can be good and bad and so addicting, and when you find that special genre you just get hooked and stick to it until you find another genre. To me music is my life and feel good moments, they inspire me and make me feel better about myself~ " @Sun Heart

"Music is any sound that provides entertainment for the ears. Within that extremely broad category, there are more specific types of music -- those that use repetition of certain notes, that use special instruments, etc." @d1r31

hmm...oh, music is essential in my life, and if anyone likes Passenger then we'll be best friends for life. @midnightrider

Some Sounds That Give Me Them Feels, Bro @Hyouzou

"an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color." @Negative Syndicate

For me Music is sounds that make you calm when you feel agitated @burningmonkey

Peace of mind, each music is alongside a memory, sad or happy. @Koneko_Neko

"A world within worlds, expressed through auditory means, but connects the deepest." @JDG973

"A chain of sounds that stimulate the listener's emotions." @eemo23

"I'd call it "A theme park of sound". Each song is an attraction, each ride stirs different emotions and creates a new story." @Sanji

"Music is the expression of emotionthrough the use of rythmic sound." @Raiden

"Art for the ears and there are no rules." @Peleihno

"A combination of rhythms with or without vocals, which composes coherent sounds :)" @Abu Dun

"A self expression of your mood or what you are going through personally." @King Tai

Pretty much whatever I like to listen to. My favorite bands are One OK Rock and Mumford & Sons, which is a total culture clash, I know. I also love Frank Sinatra and Eurodance music. Everything else is just noise that sounds good, IMO. @Hamato_Hikari

"I don't think you can properly define music.It is a special form of art, and to give it a definition would limit it severely. All art should be free to take on whatever form it wants to, so defining any type of art is impossible." @PlagueIchigo

"An amazing human triumph." @RandomRider

"A number of sounds, weak apart but as strong as steel united" @Guardian-Angel

"Charmer of the soul. Rhythmic heartbeat andword of mankind." @Satoshi

"Inspirational, motivating, comforting, and most of all entertaining." @Yuber

"Sound made melodious and harmonious to express something." @Fulmine

Uhm I don't want to be poetic and just say it is a way to relax @Maco

"I define music as art. Depends what kind. I used to be a musician but I retired cause of other businesess, but I sing to myself also once in a while cause music is life to me! The word derives from Greek: 'art of the muses'." @Buster

"Music can embody the soul of both its creator and its listener..." @Dreamcatcher

"It sounds good, but doesn't make enough Tea T_T" @TsumugiBanter

Beautiful sounds that may potentially or hopefully evoke some sort of emotion. @Urek Mazino

Music is an art formed by the union of certain notes and rythyms(Scyentific-like answer)Music is a way to travel, to feel the world and to understand what you have even better, a way of flying away to your dreamworld without sleeping.(Flower power answer) @Madara D Dragon

"Dafuq i'm confused xD" @MooshiMooosh

Music is love. Music is life. @Tiago

"The second cousin of poetry, one of the easiest ways to express feelings..." @Winterfirefly

"a form of art and literature. It sums up hate and love." @The Machine

Lmao I'm not going to pretend I'm some intellectual on music or have some deep words for this but the best definition I can give is thatmusic is everything. It goes with everything. I can't really explain it in good words but maybe when you're playing a game and in a big battle, hey? This song goes really well to this because they're moving to the beat of the music. Or maybe you see some girl you like and you think this song corresponds to her really well, e.t.c e.t.c. That's some of the things I think about when I listen to music sometimes.Jet~ @JetPk

Music is a Universal Language that transcends cultural Boundaries.

Music is Love.

Music is Life. @Namikaze_Naruto

Only 12 words? Very well. A melodic, harmonised expression and ensuing movement of the soul’s inner subjectivity. Though to be honest Leibniz defined it better: "Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." @Episteme

I define music as mood and emotion, which are two completely different things in my opinion. @Gotrense

I would say that music is an art form, an almost-magical craft that can move people and induce emotions within them. It also works as a form of self-expression, for which you don't need words to convey your feelings. @gamria

"Something that's pleasant to the ears and takes me to another place." @KittyGoesMeowMeow

Medicine. @monstertrio

"why are you asking ? i define music as something that makes me feel the intended emotion" @Miss.J

Music - Anything that produces sound in a sequence, oh god f*** my life @SunkisS

"The logical response is: Music can be any kind of audio sensation that provokes an emotional response. The more descriptive response: Melodic, mellifluous, refreshing, relaxing, motivating, uplifting, sustaining, diverse, cathartic, atmospheric and vital." @KLGChaos

"Various sounds composed in pleasing ways." @~L~

"For me, it's purely a matter of what I like and don't like. Or just whatever mood I'm in. :shrug:" @FongShwei69

Well, I would say, music is someone's inner essence being sent to other people to understand. Ok, thats probably around 12 words, lol. But what I mean is that words do not need to be used to describe it, it's just that feeling you get as the listener, when you hear a song that you really like. Emotionaly, it touches you, that is what I mean by the essence of the person who made the song, you are feeling it. @Chizi

No music. No dream. @Chicosci

"Emotion. Andno problem." @superfranky

"Pleasant for the ears and it relaxes you." @MAX_COLA_POWER!

"Music is a booster, that pushes you through life." @Enbima

"Collective ear orgasm." @Strobacaxi

"idk to me if it has a nice beat and rhythm" @laxus pwns natsu

"A form of communication that allows one to express things nonverbally." @wingman32x

"Pleasing sequences of sounds." @Ryu

xD art made with sounds @Zeando

"Music is sound at play." @Lone_ant

the sound that defines who you are. @beck26

Structured sound that can invoke a myriad of feelings and reactions. (11words)

Or for an even simpler definition

Something you can jam to lol(6 words) @Hellion

Music will set you free!Music is like fuel for my car but then, also, for my soul@Hodja

15. If you got the power to change anything (plot, characterizations, etc.) from established/canon arcs of any manga/comics and be made effective worldwide immediately, what manga/comics will it be?

16. If you can play any 3 instrumental songs with ultimate feels and techniques, what instrument(s) will you take up and what songs are they?

17. If that buff in no. 16 also happened to me (Hammond organ/piano/DX keyboard), @Metal Heart (lead/accoustic guitar) @Défectueux (lead vocal) @ArSoNiSt JoE (MC/DJ) @Sun Heart (drums) @Otaku-N. (bass/moog synth/theremin) thus forming the Infernal Seven on the spot, what kind of original song we gonna play do you have in mind?

17. An original song, well it'll have to be something that we all share, ie mangas so perhaps a song about the various mangas we've read, alternating vocals between @ArSoNiSt JoE and @Défectueux in vocals as the instruments try to harmonize the music (I get the weirdest ideas at times don't I)

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- To me this songs says that everyone needs love, even those who are care free and get their desires:

"There goes easy, easy rider, riding down the highway of desire. He says the free wind takes him higher, trying to find his heaven above but is dying to be loved"

-Easy rider to me represents the carefree person and he gets his desires fulfilled by travelling the open road. The cliche feeling of the wind blowing in his hair perhaps. Searching for his heaven could represent a never-ending road yet despite all this, he is 'dying to be loved' perhaps a soul-mate that will travel with him for the rest of his life

-Seems to me that this song fills in the story for another one of his song 'Lullaby for the Summer' (Valleys of Neptune), both share the same riffs (Is that the correct term for it?)

-It makes me wonder what his music would have been like if he was still alive today, perhaps a fusion between guitar and Carnatic music

Spoiler2)Neil Gaiman's American Gods (Don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I got this book as I recognised the author, having read his comic book before hand; Marvel 1602

-I figuratively shot myself in the foot by reading the synopsis on Wikipedia before completing the book, regretted it big time.

-Made me realise that Gods themselves like humans themselves, all wanting to survive yet not willing to move on, especially true with the 'New Gods'., created and forgotten about in a relatively shorter time as compared to the 'Old Gods'.

-Oddly enough, his style reminds me of another famous author, Stephen King, both deal with the abstract but in different manners. Neil Gaiman according to this book deals with Gods while Stephen King deals with more horror elements.

Spoiler3)Arabian Nights (the book) (Again don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I personally enjoy reading this book for the stories within the story. Perhaps so much so that I don't want it to end. That could be why I put it on hold.

-This book to me highlighted just what a woman is capable of, much good and bad as well and that no heterosexual male is able to resist her.

-As examples:
->King Shahryar's wife, the cause of her husband keeping a woman for only a night after which he has her beheaded.

->The lady that the jinnee kept locked up under 7 padlocks of steel and under water as well. Despite which, she has managed to have 570+ men pleasure under the jinnee's nose.

->Scheherazade. Not only did she manage to save the lives of countless woman, she has also managed to quell a man's want for her by telling a story to him every night, some dragging for multiple nights.

-It made me wonder what would have happen to Scheherazade once she had no more stories to tell, would King Shahryar have spared her life as long as she stayed loyal to him or would he have killed her come the next morning and if he allowed her to life, would she have stayed loyal to him.

Spoiler4) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Stardust Crusaders (Anime)

- I'm beyond delighted that finally this series is animated, long overdue

-If there is one thing that bugs me about this series (it is extremely minor) is that I keep hearing Antfish's jokes every time I watch an episode but it doesn't detract from the anime.

- Makes me wonder if there will be a remake of Fist of the North Star, possibly covering the adventures of Kenshiro and Raoh's son and beyond

The first time I've been shipped with someone...and it's a dude. In the words of Johnny Bravo, 'I'm sickened but curious'

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V Why do you play this game?

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Spoiler8) People's opinion on Fanfiction

1. Oh god. Now I'm feeling paranoid that all I'm known for on this forum is being the girl who hates fanfiction.
Listen, fanfiction is writing with training wheels. It can be really fun to do (or so I imagine having never done it) and a wonderful way to simply start writing at all. But compared to having to create your own world, characters, themes, and ideas, it isn't really writing. And it's way to easy to get a false sense of accomplishment from the fanfiction community. I'd go on to say for the reader, that like 98% of all fanfiction is stupid drivel written by people with extreme wish-fulfillment needs so if you're reading it seriously, you should probably read something better.

1. I don't really have one? I was going to say it's not for me but I realized that RPs set in an existing fictional world is a similar analogue, so maybe it is. That said, I don't like too much involvement from the canon characters.

1. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on it one way or the other; there are some really talented writers out there that do it and as a consequence some really good stories exist but for the most part it usually isn't very good. I think the concept behind fanfiction attracts people that are fans of the source far more than it does people with legitimate writing ability and a fan without polished writing skills or inherent creativity isn't very likely to produce anything beyond a mediocre story if they can even manage that. As a result the majority of fanfiction tends towards the terrible side with a rare gem under the rubble.

1. I don't read a lot of fanfiction. I tried a couple of times, mainly Naruto related stuff, but every time I was trying one that I actually liked, it was left unfinished. So totally dropped fanfiction because of that. Also, it's never as good as the original story, from what I've seen and the characters can be caricatured, which I don't particularly like. Still… at one point in time, I liked it.

I think that fanfiction has it's merits. If someone is good enough they can make use of the already established characters, universe, powers, etc and come up with compelling stories. I've actually seen a lot of good Naruto fanfiction that to me, really illustrates how potentially great Naruto could have been, if Kishi was a better writer.

So overall I don't really have a problem with the idea of fanfiction. As with any genre of writing, I only have a problem with horribly written fanfiction...especially the ones revolving around pairings. If the stories are good, then it's all good with me

1) Depends on the quality. Some is good, some is terrible.

I don't like it. It appears to me that people are just too lazy to come up with something on their own, so they rip off other people's characters and ideas.

1. Frightening and sometimes disturbing.

It's not all THAT bad

1. Rarely good but maybe that's just my unlucky encounters. When it's good it's kinda really good though. But I don't read them often anw.

1. I like the creativity about it, the what if's, although I do agree that most of the times it comes down to wish fulfillment.

A highly personal piece of writing.

Its quality is almost invariably lower than the original, but the special intention of the fanfic writer, to write a sort of fan letter for the original author and/or their works in form of fiction is what sets it apart from other kinds of writing.

In short, it's a memoir, not of a person, but that of some written piece of work.

1. The vast majority of it is horrible, mostly because it’s a means of wish fulfilment on the writer’s part. Characterisation often suffers and there is little appreciation for the original creator’s vision. There are however some truly amazing gems out there that adequately flesh out and examine a given character, and build upon the original plot in inspired and creative ways. One of the best fanfics I’ve ever read, incidentally for Bleach, is in several ways far grander and interesting where plot and character development is concerned than anything Kubo has delivered in recent years.

1. It's cool! I don't read it anymore because it's really rare to find anything with any good quality writing wise, but when I was a teenager I read a lot of InuYasha fanfiction.

I read maybe two on my life time, and i have no interest on continuing to read it.

1. I only really bother if I know it's really, really good or really, really bad.

1) Oh boy xD I actually like quite a lot of fanfiction. IT always has to be written good and have the spirit of the original work it is fanfiction of, but as I had to find out there are actually quite a lot good fanfiction writers out there and I like a lot of their stuff ^^

I absolutly love fanfiction. Take for example Dragonball multiverse so many people joined together to make that project. Project that is still on-going. You can see the time and effort put in it and some of the chapter were so amzing they feel so real. Not all fanfictions are good but the whole concept of fanfiction is something ill always aprove.

1. Its weird, and i love it depending on what its about.

1) Back when I started to really immerse myself in this area, I actually tried to write one of my own. It was supposed to be a sequel to The Vision of Escaflowne, set 10 years later. I even made it to Part 4 but sadly, it's all lost now. Nowadays, I usually don't read it but it's still good to know that people want to expand the stories they like the most - or try to create something completely unique. Since, technically, each great author has started with writing what would be considered fan fiction

1) Alot of fan fiction to me seems to be too mary sue, focusing around the characters in non realistic ways. Hence I like Original novels with original characters and settings

1. I have no real opinion I'm not a big fan fiction guy, I wrote one for a contest here but that was only so i could try it, though I got a bit long winded with the story and the book that I based it on was so broad in themes it was a challenge but I could go anywhere with it which I liked. Fanfiction is a great thing, the better someone is at fan fiction the more I want to read their own personal works and I guess that's the challenge too, how much of the fan fiction you wrote is your own imagination and how much are you relying on the reference. Like I said, no real opinion.

1. I haven't read a lot of it, but I suppose that depends on the series it's from, the type of fan fiction, and how well it's written.

1. Generally speaking I don't like fanfiction. I don't read it and consider it a crutch for writers who lack the imagination to think of the own characters and settings. If I were an author I would find it flattering most likely but I doubt my overall opinion of it would change.

1) I haven't read much fanfiction in my life so far. However, the stories I have read are fun and it's just nice to read about your favourite characters or whatever in a different setting or something. So ya, fanfiction = good. However 50 shades of grey is terrible.

1. I mean its really not that uch different from regular fiction. just you have templates our following in terms of characters and ability's and backstory's and whatnot. but any true consumer of the arts will tell you a great author has to be versed in many different works in pursuit of a style to call their own. what better way to explore an authors style then by trying to replicate it/improve upon it?

1. It's okay I guess, I'm not really a fan but I don't have anything against it either. I think it takes a really good author to pull a fanfiction work off well but there probably aren't many out there so they're usually pretty mediocre.

1. I don't read that much, but I think it's awesome that fans are able to write down their perspective on how a story should go and such. If the original author gets to read them, they might think more about how they make their stories and might find some things that they can improve on.

1) I've never thought about it.. I don't really read it. Or well, I did when I first started reading manga when I was uhhh. idk young, started out with FMA and moved on to Naruto and I uh, read naruto fanfiction. I was young and innocent and I swear to god 80% of all of those fanfics were hardcore yaoi stuff, at least all the stuff I ended up on! I barely knew what being gay was, I was new to the internet and it just wasn't widely spoken about back then! So until I recognized to tell the fanfics apart I got my curiousity settled on that subject. But yea, this was years and years ago and I havent read fanfictions in forever so I dont really know what my opinion is cus yea, I don't know the area. But I guess it's just like fan drawings, nice way for people to dedicate something to their favourite show. I have nothing against it but it doesn't appeal to me. It did back then because I was way more in to anime/manga than I am now.

Spoiler9) The first time I ever made someone snort out their drink over the internet

"Not all music needs to be great or even serious, but with the music that is there's a problem. I think music is far better now than ever before in history, but it's obviously not that way in the mainstream. Even among music aficionados, there is a clear confusion about whether or not there actually is any music experience that can rise above a truly basic song. Music theorists know this to be the case, but frankly too many of them are old and out of touch with the only way of finding the largest collection of progressive music which is by illegally torrenting them (or spending millions of dollars I guess). Why should this lack of musical progression seem so prevalent if whether or not the best is played the average progresses higher and higher? It's obvious why pop hits are what radio spends most of its time on, but even if it made an effort to play the best experimental songs they could find it would not make a big difference as I think it's the way that music is listened to that's to blame. The idea of an eargasmic sound or perfectly sung sentence should be as self evidently ridiculous as the best line of a book, although there are obviously key moments that trump all others there is no sound imaginable that listened to by itself for 2 seconds would please anyone just as there is no sentence in a book that by itself would be anyone's favorite book. It's the context of the sound and meaning of the words in a story that matter. We're extremely lucky that consumers 200 years ago had no say in how much of a Beethoven symphony they got to listen to or they surely also would've said the best 3 and a half minutes at a time missing the whole point. A classical symphony can only be appreciated in its entirety with all of its highs and dreadful, sometimes annoying lows and modern music is no different. Concerts are good for this, but they also woefully miss the peak of a musical experience. An album is pointless if it is a collection of songs that might as well be singles, but must be an entity in its own right. The time that goes into crafting and producing a progression of sounds with a perfect flow is absolutely necessary for an experience worthy to be called an artistic masterpiece. This is well understood in mainstream literature, mainstream film and needs to become understood in mainstream music, but the majority of public consciousness is so far behind in that category it is concerning how long that might take. It really saddens me." @NGEFan

"Music isdifferent things to different people." @Baka-Dynasty

"Uhhhhhhhhh. Part of an artist's soul that can captivate the hearts of others." @ilikewaffles

"I think it's a combination of different tones... creating/intensifying feelings and influencing one's mood. Above that, listening to music is a great way to "flee" from reality for a while..." @kleckermaus

"The onlylanguage understood by us all." @Scorpion2k4u

"The vocal, rhythmetic or instrumental expression of an emotion." @Hadz-x

"Music is aconglomeration of sounds and/or wordsin a pattern." @FrostyMouse

"Music is a creative and expressive form of art." @kirstenn:)

"Motivational/Inspirational mood changer." @kame d. kaze

Music is a friend that will make you experience strong emotions and help you through dark times. @Maika

"The voice of the world, filtered through your ears." @hollowhowl7

"Even in your darkest times, music can show you the light." @BadCompany

"An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions. thankyoudictionary" @DrugzRule

"Music is an art in which you can express yourself in these beautiful ways that makes it sound magical being lyrics or rhythm.. Music is another drug, it can be good and bad and so addicting, and when you find that special genre you just get hooked and stick to it until you find another genre. To me music is my life and feel good moments, they inspire me and make me feel better about myself~ " @Sun Heart

"Music is any sound that provides entertainment for the ears. Within that extremely broad category, there are more specific types of music -- those that use repetition of certain notes, that use special instruments, etc." @d1r31

hmm...oh, music is essential in my life, and if anyone likes Passenger then we'll be best friends for life. @midnightrider

Some Sounds That Give Me Them Feels, Bro @Hyouzou

"an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color." @Negative Syndicate

For me Music is sounds that make you calm when you feel agitated @burningmonkey

Peace of mind, each music is alongside a memory, sad or happy. @Koneko_Neko

"A world within worlds, expressed through auditory means, but connects the deepest." @JDG973

"A chain of sounds that stimulate the listener's emotions." @eemo23

"I'd call it "A theme park of sound". Each song is an attraction, each ride stirs different emotions and creates a new story." @Sanji

"Music is the expression of emotionthrough the use of rythmic sound." @Raiden

"Art for the ears and there are no rules." @Peleihno

"A combination of rhythms with or without vocals, which composes coherent sounds :)" @Abu Dun

"A self expression of your mood or what you are going through personally." @King Tai

Pretty much whatever I like to listen to. My favorite bands are One OK Rock and Mumford & Sons, which is a total culture clash, I know. I also love Frank Sinatra and Eurodance music. Everything else is just noise that sounds good, IMO. @Hamato_Hikari

"I don't think you can properly define music.It is a special form of art, and to give it a definition would limit it severely. All art should be free to take on whatever form it wants to, so defining any type of art is impossible." @PlagueIchigo

"An amazing human triumph." @RandomRider

"A number of sounds, weak apart but as strong as steel united" @Guardian-Angel

"Charmer of the soul. Rhythmic heartbeat andword of mankind." @Satoshi

"Inspirational, motivating, comforting, and most of all entertaining." @Yuber

"Sound made melodious and harmonious to express something." @Fulmine

Uhm I don't want to be poetic and just say it is a way to relax @Maco

"I define music as art. Depends what kind. I used to be a musician but I retired cause of other businesess, but I sing to myself also once in a while cause music is life to me! The word derives from Greek: 'art of the muses'." @Buster

"Music can embody the soul of both its creator and its listener..." @Dreamcatcher

"It sounds good, but doesn't make enough Tea T_T" @TsumugiBanter

Beautiful sounds that may potentially or hopefully evoke some sort of emotion. @Urek Mazino

Music is an art formed by the union of certain notes and rythyms(Scyentific-like answer)Music is a way to travel, to feel the world and to understand what you have even better, a way of flying away to your dreamworld without sleeping.(Flower power answer) @Madara D Dragon

"Dafuq i'm confused xD" @MooshiMooosh

Music is love. Music is life. @Tiago

"The second cousin of poetry, one of the easiest ways to express feelings..." @Winterfirefly

"a form of art and literature. It sums up hate and love." @The Machine

Lmao I'm not going to pretend I'm some intellectual on music or have some deep words for this but the best definition I can give is thatmusic is everything. It goes with everything. I can't really explain it in good words but maybe when you're playing a game and in a big battle, hey? This song goes really well to this because they're moving to the beat of the music. Or maybe you see some girl you like and you think this song corresponds to her really well, e.t.c e.t.c. That's some of the things I think about when I listen to music sometimes.Jet~ @JetPk

Music is a Universal Language that transcends cultural Boundaries.

Music is Love.

Music is Life. @Namikaze_Naruto

Only 12 words? Very well. A melodic, harmonised expression and ensuing movement of the soul’s inner subjectivity. Though to be honest Leibniz defined it better: "Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." @Episteme

I define music as mood and emotion, which are two completely different things in my opinion. @Gotrense

I would say that music is an art form, an almost-magical craft that can move people and induce emotions within them. It also works as a form of self-expression, for which you don't need words to convey your feelings. @gamria

"Something that's pleasant to the ears and takes me to another place." @KittyGoesMeowMeow

Medicine. @monstertrio

"why are you asking ? i define music as something that makes me feel the intended emotion" @Miss.J

Music - Anything that produces sound in a sequence, oh god f*** my life @SunkisS

"The logical response is: Music can be any kind of audio sensation that provokes an emotional response. The more descriptive response: Melodic, mellifluous, refreshing, relaxing, motivating, uplifting, sustaining, diverse, cathartic, atmospheric and vital." @KLGChaos

"Various sounds composed in pleasing ways." @~L~

"For me, it's purely a matter of what I like and don't like. Or just whatever mood I'm in. :shrug:" @FongShwei69

Well, I would say, music is someone's inner essence being sent to other people to understand. Ok, thats probably around 12 words, lol. But what I mean is that words do not need to be used to describe it, it's just that feeling you get as the listener, when you hear a song that you really like. Emotionaly, it touches you, that is what I mean by the essence of the person who made the song, you are feeling it. @Chizi

No music. No dream. @Chicosci

"Emotion. Andno problem." @superfranky

"Pleasant for the ears and it relaxes you." @MAX_COLA_POWER!

"Music is a booster, that pushes you through life." @Enbima

"Collective ear orgasm." @Strobacaxi

"idk to me if it has a nice beat and rhythm" @laxus pwns natsu

"A form of communication that allows one to express things nonverbally." @wingman32x

"Pleasing sequences of sounds." @Ryu

xD art made with sounds @Zeando

"Music is sound at play." @Lone_ant

the sound that defines who you are. @beck26

Structured sound that can invoke a myriad of feelings and reactions. (11words)

Or for an even simpler definition

Something you can jam to lol(6 words) @Hellion

Music will set you free!Music is like fuel for my car but then, also, for my soul@Hodja

- To me this songs says that everyone needs love, even those who are care free and get their desires:

"There goes easy, easy rider, riding down the highway of desire. He says the free wind takes him higher, trying to find his heaven above but is dying to be loved"

-Easy rider to me represents the carefree person and he gets his desires fulfilled by travelling the open road. The cliche feeling of the wind blowing in his hair perhaps. Searching for his heaven could represent a never-ending road yet despite all this, he is 'dying to be loved' perhaps a soul-mate that will travel with him for the rest of his life

-Seems to me that this song fills in the story for another one of his song 'Lullaby for the Summer' (Valleys of Neptune), both share the same riffs (Is that the correct term for it?)

-It makes me wonder what his music would have been like if he was still alive today, perhaps a fusion between guitar and Carnatic music

Spoiler2)Neil Gaiman's American Gods (Don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I got this book as I recognised the author, having read his comic book before hand; Marvel 1602

-I figuratively shot myself in the foot by reading the synopsis on Wikipedia before completing the book, regretted it big time.

-Made me realise that Gods themselves like humans themselves, all wanting to survive yet not willing to move on, especially true with the 'New Gods'., created and forgotten about in a relatively shorter time as compared to the 'Old Gods'.

-Oddly enough, his style reminds me of another famous author, Stephen King, both deal with the abstract but in different manners. Neil Gaiman according to this book deals with Gods while Stephen King deals with more horror elements.

Spoiler3)Arabian Nights (the book) (Again don't read this if you haven't read the book)

-I personally enjoy reading this book for the stories within the story. Perhaps so much so that I don't want it to end. That could be why I put it on hold.

-This book to me highlighted just what a woman is capable of, much good and bad as well and that no heterosexual male is able to resist her.

-As examples:
->King Shahryar's wife, the cause of her husband keeping a woman for only a night after which he has her beheaded.

->The lady that the jinnee kept locked up under 7 padlocks of steel and under water as well. Despite which, she has managed to have 570+ men pleasure under the jinnee's nose.

->Scheherazade. Not only did she manage to save the lives of countless woman, she has also managed to quell a man's want for her by telling a story to him every night, some dragging for multiple nights.

-It made me wonder what would have happen to Scheherazade once she had no more stories to tell, would King Shahryar have spared her life as long as she stayed loyal to him or would he have killed her come the next morning and if he allowed her to life, would she have stayed loyal to him.

Spoiler4) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Stardust Crusaders (Anime)

- I'm beyond delighted that finally this series is animated, long overdue

-If there is one thing that bugs me about this series (it is extremely minor) is that I keep hearing Antfish's jokes every time I watch an episode but it doesn't detract from the anime.

- Makes me wonder if there will be a remake of Fist of the North Star, possibly covering the adventures of Kenshiro and Raoh's son and beyond

The first time I've been shipped with someone...and it's a dude. In the words of Johnny Bravo, 'I'm sickened but curious'

Spoiler6)An admin playing a forum game

^ It's 6:20

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V Why do you play this game?

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Spoiler8) People's opinion on Fanfiction

1. Oh god. Now I'm feeling paranoid that all I'm known for on this forum is being the girl who hates fanfiction.
Listen, fanfiction is writing with training wheels. It can be really fun to do (or so I imagine having never done it) and a wonderful way to simply start writing at all. But compared to having to create your own world, characters, themes, and ideas, it isn't really writing. And it's way to easy to get a false sense of accomplishment from the fanfiction community. I'd go on to say for the reader, that like 98% of all fanfiction is stupid drivel written by people with extreme wish-fulfillment needs so if you're reading it seriously, you should probably read something better.

1. I don't really have one? I was going to say it's not for me but I realized that RPs set in an existing fictional world is a similar analogue, so maybe it is. That said, I don't like too much involvement from the canon characters.

1. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on it one way or the other; there are some really talented writers out there that do it and as a consequence some really good stories exist but for the most part it usually isn't very good. I think the concept behind fanfiction attracts people that are fans of the source far more than it does people with legitimate writing ability and a fan without polished writing skills or inherent creativity isn't very likely to produce anything beyond a mediocre story if they can even manage that. As a result the majority of fanfiction tends towards the terrible side with a rare gem under the rubble.

1. I don't read a lot of fanfiction. I tried a couple of times, mainly Naruto related stuff, but every time I was trying one that I actually liked, it was left unfinished. So totally dropped fanfiction because of that. Also, it's never as good as the original story, from what I've seen and the characters can be caricatured, which I don't particularly like. Still… at one point in time, I liked it.

I think that fanfiction has it's merits. If someone is good enough they can make use of the already established characters, universe, powers, etc and come up with compelling stories. I've actually seen a lot of good Naruto fanfiction that to me, really illustrates how potentially great Naruto could have been, if Kishi was a better writer.

So overall I don't really have a problem with the idea of fanfiction. As with any genre of writing, I only have a problem with horribly written fanfiction...especially the ones revolving around pairings. If the stories are good, then it's all good with me

1) Depends on the quality. Some is good, some is terrible.

I don't like it. It appears to me that people are just too lazy to come up with something on their own, so they rip off other people's characters and ideas.

1. Frightening and sometimes disturbing.

It's not all THAT bad

1. Rarely good but maybe that's just my unlucky encounters. When it's good it's kinda really good though. But I don't read them often anw.

1. I like the creativity about it, the what if's, although I do agree that most of the times it comes down to wish fulfillment.

A highly personal piece of writing.

Its quality is almost invariably lower than the original, but the special intention of the fanfic writer, to write a sort of fan letter for the original author and/or their works in form of fiction is what sets it apart from other kinds of writing.

In short, it's a memoir, not of a person, but that of some written piece of work.

1. The vast majority of it is horrible, mostly because it’s a means of wish fulfilment on the writer’s part. Characterisation often suffers and there is little appreciation for the original creator’s vision. There are however some truly amazing gems out there that adequately flesh out and examine a given character, and build upon the original plot in inspired and creative ways. One of the best fanfics I’ve ever read, incidentally for Bleach, is in several ways far grander and interesting where plot and character development is concerned than anything Kubo has delivered in recent years.

1. It's cool! I don't read it anymore because it's really rare to find anything with any good quality writing wise, but when I was a teenager I read a lot of InuYasha fanfiction.

I read maybe two on my life time, and i have no interest on continuing to read it.

1. I only really bother if I know it's really, really good or really, really bad.

1) Oh boy xD I actually like quite a lot of fanfiction. IT always has to be written good and have the spirit of the original work it is fanfiction of, but as I had to find out there are actually quite a lot good fanfiction writers out there and I like a lot of their stuff ^^

I absolutly love fanfiction. Take for example Dragonball multiverse so many people joined together to make that project. Project that is still on-going. You can see the time and effort put in it and some of the chapter were so amzing they feel so real. Not all fanfictions are good but the whole concept of fanfiction is something ill always aprove.

1. Its weird, and i love it depending on what its about.

1) Back when I started to really immerse myself in this area, I actually tried to write one of my own. It was supposed to be a sequel to The Vision of Escaflowne, set 10 years later. I even made it to Part 4 but sadly, it's all lost now. Nowadays, I usually don't read it but it's still good to know that people want to expand the stories they like the most - or try to create something completely unique. Since, technically, each great author has started with writing what would be considered fan fiction

1) Alot of fan fiction to me seems to be too mary sue, focusing around the characters in non realistic ways. Hence I like Original novels with original characters and settings

1. I have no real opinion I'm not a big fan fiction guy, I wrote one for a contest here but that was only so i could try it, though I got a bit long winded with the story and the book that I based it on was so broad in themes it was a challenge but I could go anywhere with it which I liked. Fanfiction is a great thing, the better someone is at fan fiction the more I want to read their own personal works and I guess that's the challenge too, how much of the fan fiction you wrote is your own imagination and how much are you relying on the reference. Like I said, no real opinion.

1. I haven't read a lot of it, but I suppose that depends on the series it's from, the type of fan fiction, and how well it's written.

1. Generally speaking I don't like fanfiction. I don't read it and consider it a crutch for writers who lack the imagination to think of the own characters and settings. If I were an author I would find it flattering most likely but I doubt my overall opinion of it would change.

1) I haven't read much fanfiction in my life so far. However, the stories I have read are fun and it's just nice to read about your favourite characters or whatever in a different setting or something. So ya, fanfiction = good. However 50 shades of grey is terrible.

1. I mean its really not that uch different from regular fiction. just you have templates our following in terms of characters and ability's and backstory's and whatnot. but any true consumer of the arts will tell you a great author has to be versed in many different works in pursuit of a style to call their own. what better way to explore an authors style then by trying to replicate it/improve upon it?

1. It's okay I guess, I'm not really a fan but I don't have anything against it either. I think it takes a really good author to pull a fanfiction work off well but there probably aren't many out there so they're usually pretty mediocre.

1. I don't read that much, but I think it's awesome that fans are able to write down their perspective on how a story should go and such. If the original author gets to read them, they might think more about how they make their stories and might find some things that they can improve on.

1) I've never thought about it.. I don't really read it. Or well, I did when I first started reading manga when I was uhhh. idk young, started out with FMA and moved on to Naruto and I uh, read naruto fanfiction. I was young and innocent and I swear to god 80% of all of those fanfics were hardcore yaoi stuff, at least all the stuff I ended up on! I barely knew what being gay was, I was new to the internet and it just wasn't widely spoken about back then! So until I recognized to tell the fanfics apart I got my curiousity settled on that subject. But yea, this was years and years ago and I havent read fanfictions in forever so I dont really know what my opinion is cus yea, I don't know the area. But I guess it's just like fan drawings, nice way for people to dedicate something to their favourite show. I have nothing against it but it doesn't appeal to me. It did back then because I was way more in to anime/manga than I am now.

Spoiler9) The first time I ever made someone snort out their drink over the internet